Definitions
Definitions from the GROVE dictionary of Mucic and Musicians
Books and PDF's
Study supplement 1 & 2
Study supplement 3 & 4
Preparatory theory and harmony book
Basic classical chord progressions (Daily Keyboard workout)
1)Intervals
- Drill class
- Tensions
- Write intervals, 1st interval is given
- Wide intervals
- Teoria intervals
- Learning intervals with songs
- Intervallic eartraining
2) Scales
- Chords and scales
- Teoria, chords, scales and modes
- Chordscale exercises with 2,3,4 chord vamps
- Teoria, scales
- Teoria, modes and parent scales
- Chordscale exercises on standards
- Resolve patterns a la Kenny Werner
- Kenny Werner scale resolutions
- Barry Harris halfstep rules for descending lines
- Barry Harris drills , step by step
- Barry Harris lines (audio)
- Barry Harris chromatic scale
- Daily chordscale drills on different chordqualities
3) Melodic dictation
- 4 note shapes
- Teoria note eartraining
- Teoria key and note eartraining
- Teoria chord and note eartraining
- Teoria Melodic dictation
- Teoria Two voice dictation
- Aldwell classical cadences (melody, bass)
- Chordtone melodies
- Simple basslines
- Jazzbasslines
- Melodic exercises classical
- Short musical phrases
- Lick concepts
- B M short licks
- B M playalongs
4) Harmonic
- Write Longnotes (Whole notes)
- Write Longnotes (half notes)
- Sing Longnotes bass/topline
- Basic cadences, start with I, IV, V (major)
- Basic cadences minor
- Harmonic level 1
- Harmonic level 2 (Key is in the extension)
- Harmonic level 3 (Jazzcadences in C)
- 7th chords
- 7th chords in rootposition
- Secondary dominants
- Teoria, one Secondary dominant
- Teoria, several Secondary dominants, root position
- Teoria, several Secondary dominants, root position and first inversion
- Teoria, several Secondary dominants, any inversion
- Teoria, Progressions from standards, mostly diatonic
- Teoria, Extended chords, 1 extension
- Teoria, Extended chords, 2 extensions
- Sing bass, topline, decide function
- Inversions basic
- Inversions per chord
- Inversion exercises with diatonic bassline
- Inversion exercises with triads
- Inversions in chordsequenses, 4 chords (difficult)
- Inversions in songs
- Taking chords apart
- Pianovoicings/ toplines
- 2,3 voices
- Teoria.com: Listen to triads with the first note given, notate the rest.with the first note given, notate the rest
- Teoria.com: Listen to 7th chords with the first note given, notate the rest
- Listen to voicings and pianotoplines of standards. (written out comping (Difficult))
- Deceptive resolutions of V7
- Deceptive resolutions of secondary dominants
- Diminished chords
- Extensions and alterations
- Guidetone dictations
- Substitute Dominants
- Theory A chordvoicings
- Everything you always wanted to know about upperstructures
5) Singing
- Drill class
- Sing intervals and chords
- Singing and improvising, II-V-I guidelines, chordscales and arpeggios
- From chord to scale per cycle. (diatonic, Sec. Dom., Sub V, Modal interchange, II-V configurations)
- Scatsongs, Learn by heart, then write down favourite lick in a couple tonalities.
- Singing chromatics by Dave Frank, 'Charlie's famous chromatic exercises' (5:18)
- Singing chromatics by Dave Frank, 'the Buttonhook' (11:15)
- Singing chromatics by Dave Frank, 'hearing chromatics in tunes' (14:41)
- Sing Charlie Parker
- Sing (upperstructure triads) on II-V’s
- Sing upperstructures
- Classical exercises, sing scale belonging to the exercise
- Classical exercises, use as sightreading ex
- Singing inversions
- From inversion to interval or lick
- sightreading.
- Here you will find material on singing and improvising.
- daily singing exercises.
- Sightreading by subject.
- How to study inversions.
- A cappella singing
- Scatsongs in class
- Sightreading intervals
- Singing and conducting and sight recognizion
- Bach Chorales score and audio:
No 1: https://open.spotify.com/track/4a3TXKV1JoGUSCjuLD6FIH
No 2: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Upv7t379YIr4dveJlRR8T
No 3: https://open.spotify.com/track/3bb8lTkDUMasCS86UsxgMa
6) Rhythm
- Teoria.com: Rhythm dictation
- Reading Rhythm level 1, classical
- Some classical Rhythm exercises.
- Reading Rhythm level 2
- Reading Rhythm level 3
- Reading Rhythm level 4
- HH basslines
- Writing out drumgrooves
- Here you will find studyloops for practicing.
- Afro Caribbean grooves for drumset (write out in drumclef)
- Rhythm fills vocalisation
- Kenny Werner rhythm exercises with scales
- Jerry Bergonzi melodic rhythm exercises
- Here you will find books for rhythm tapping
- Singing rhythms and conducting!
- Understanding clave and history of Latin music.
- Latin Piano grooves
- Check these great Latin bassexamples. Sing the rhythms of the bass while clapping the clave.
- 'Funkafying Latin styles
- The Brazilian Rhythm section (Zipfile)
- Brazilian guitarstyles (Zip file)
- Study clave exercises
- Afro caribbean grooves (audio)
- Percussion Tutor is a great app for practising and learning about latin and African rhythms
- (the book from the Percussion Tutor app)
- Clap Clave exercises while singing
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Here you will find videos and audio about rhythm.
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Brad mehldau's incredible rhythmic and motivic approach on Solar!
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The drums (1935-2022), the grooves you need to know (with Gregg Bissonette).
- Mike Longo's Rhythm pile explained
7) Standard of the week
- Exercises for standards
- Exam sheets
- Standard melodies Solfege A
- Standard melodies Solfege B
- Sing bassnotes with playalong (Solfege A)
- Sing bassnotes with playalong (Solfege B)
- Sing guidetones with playalong (Solfege A)
- Sing guidetones with playalong (Solfege B)
- Sing arps of the chordprogression
- Sing line exercises on chords (Solfege A)
- Sing line exercises on chords (Solfege B)
- Take short cadences and put them in a loop (audacity), sing patterns within a span of a 3, 5th from different notes.
- Listen to the topline of the pianochords of the playalong and write down (playalong Solfege A))
- Listen to the topline of the pianochords of the playalong and write down (playalong Solfege B)
- Listen to chord inversions of the chords of the standard of the week (Solfege B)
- Short cadences from the playalongs (Solfege A)
- Short cadences from the playalongs (Solfege B)
- Rhythm exercises with standards
8) Exercises for improvisation
- Dave Frank about 'improvising using chromatics over basic progressions' (18:16)
- Dave Frank about 'using chromatics freely while improvising on tunes' (23:56)
- Barry Harris exercises (Rules for descending lines on Dominants)
- Connecting scales based on the Jerry Bergonzi book 'Melodic structures'
9) Theory
- Teoria.com: about reading music
- Teoria.com: all about chords
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Teoria.com: key signatures construction
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Teoria.com: key signatures identification
- Theory worksheets
- scales and numbers
- Target note training
- Accidental placement
- Notation in general
- Diatonic intervals
- Tetrachords
- Chordsymbols
10) Impro line exercises
11) Songwriting / Pop harmony
- Making sense of Rock's Tonal Systems (Walther Everett)