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Music Theory Basics

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I'm doing a set of primers on basic music theory for one of my GCSE classes and I thought some on here might be interested.

I should be doing this on more aspects of theory and other things they need for their exams. I'll update this thread as that happens.

http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/7 ... nality.pdf

http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/7 ... ty%202.pdf
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I look forward to checking this out at work tomorrow.

But, how do I do an powerchord?
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Jah bless - this is right up my street.
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Nice idea and looking forward to more of them
plopswagon wrote:I like teles and strats because they're made out of guitar.
robroe wrote:I dont need a capo. I have the other chords in my tonefingers
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Oh, there's a typo. D Major has a Csharp. Don't know how I missed it (but I'm glad I did, it meant that I knew some of the kids had understood when they asked why it wasn't Csharp. Had to pretend to be playing silly teacher. It didn't work).
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No microtonal scales, unsubscribed
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If you wish to add a section on microtones and how they function of be more than happy to include it!

On that, I was delighted when I asked where we might have come across music that used more than twelve notes and someone I didn't expect answered that Indian music used microtones.
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Haha, I wish I could. I'm trying to get my head around some Arabic instrumentation to add to new Casa Bonita songs and trying to keep it authentic without just sounding mad out-of-tune against guitars.

This looks legit good, Paul. I'm sure there's a treasure trove of tips in there for even a semi-educated dullard such as myself