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Learn Scales and Chords (Piano, Guitar, or any Instrument)

Name: Learn Scales and Chords (Piano, Guitar, or any Instrument)
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Music theory that transfers across instruments

Most instrument tutorials teach you to copy what's on the page. This course goes underneath the notes, building an understanding of the scales and chords that your favorite songs are actually built from — knowledge that carries over whether you play piano, guitar, or something else entirely.

Who it's for

Musicians at any level who want to stop relying on someone else's tab or sheet music and start understanding why a song works. No instrument-specific focus means it suits piano and guitar players alike.

Key takeaways

Major scales and minor scale modes, taught through several different learning approaches
Major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords, plus how to read chord variations like sus and 7th
How to read chord charts and transpose a song into a different key

The material is paired with practice exercises and downloadable references, so the theory gets applied rather than just memorized.

About this course

So many people want to learn music but end up learning to copy what we see on an instrument. I wanted to know more about music than just what is written on the sheet music. I have learned so much since I started my music journey and the foundation is understanding scales and chords.

What does this course teach you?

This course teaches you scales and chords which all your favorite songs are based on. Once you are comfortable and "really" understand the scale your song is written in then the song becomes so much easier. It will cover:

Major Scales
Minor Scales (modes)
Different ways to learn your scales
Major, minor, Diminished, and Augmented chords
How to read chord variations (sus, 7th, dom7, 5 chords)
How to read chord charts
How to transpose songs (change the scale or key of the song)

We are going to try very hard to explain all the material in several ways, because everyone learns differently. We are also going to explain a lot of the terms of music so you don't have to have a musical dictionary at hand. Most of the terms are very basic in music that we will us.

This course includes video of me explaining the process. It also has exercises for you to try out on your and multiple downloads to look over offline.

Music is a process.

There are some really smart people that might memorize the facts of this course in a week or so. Music is a process though and not just facts. I will show you ways and exercises to use the knowledge in this course in practical ways so the information actually stays with you.

Why should you take this course?

You can take music lessons your whole life and rely on what people tell you. Many people continue to need others to tell them what to do. I won't be telling you how you should be playing your music at all in this course. I am giving you a tool to understand music. Some people leave the traditional teaching system and go to online song tutorials for their music help but you are still often just listening to someone tell how "they" play the song. This course will show you how to understand the music for yourself and make decisions on how it should be played. It will give you the foundation to not just play music but to create it.