Getting Started With Music Theory

A short introduction

This is a brief course for people with little or no music theory experience. It covers the building blocks of how music is organised and written down, starting with pitch and rhythm and moving through meter, notation and scales.

From keys to harmony

The later part of the course takes in keys and key signatures, meter signatures, triads and seventh chords, before ending with basic harmony. The stated goal includes knowing every major and minor key and reading and writing notation.

Who it suits

• Listeners who play by ear and want to know how music is written
• Beginners who need the vocabulary before tackling harmony
• Anyone who wants the terms used in lessons and sheet music

It is a sensible first step before any more advanced harmony course, since the material is kept to fundamentals.