Music Theory #3 - Circle of 5ths - Compose & Improvise

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Welcome to the course on Circle of 5ths Level 3.

I’m so happy you’re here.

Welcome to the course on Circle of 5ths Level 3. I designed this course for anyone who wants to compose his/her first song using the Circle of 5ths.

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Welcome to the course on Circle of 5ths Level 3.

I’m so happy you’re here.

Welcome to the course on Circle of 5ths Level 3. I designed this course for anyone who wants to compose his/her first song using the Circle of 5ths.

You don’t need to know a lot of music theory to write your own song. Even a total beginner can do this.

What you need to know is that there is a musician inside you waiting for you to discover.

Maybe you have always thought that you are not musical Well, you are going to be in for a big surprise. You are going to learn NEW & EASY Tricks to create melodic lines using Pentatonic tones.

We are going to Rock with your first Solo.

Whether you play piano, the keyboard, guitar or ukulele, you are going to start improvising and creating melody lines for your solos.

It’s a dream for many people to be able to write their first song of their life.

This course will help musicians at all levels but for beginners, you can just stay in the Key of C.

In this course, you are going to use the Circle of 5ths to identify all the 12 Major Pentatonic Scales easily. You don't need to refer to any charts or look up any music scale books. The Circle is all you need.

You may ask: Why the Pentatonic tones?

Pentatonic melodies are easy to sing. There are no dissonant intervals between these pitches.

This is a scale that a lot of guitar players use to solo with and to improvise on.

Here’s the secret: For beginners to make music easily, to create solo lines that sound melodic, you need to avoid the 2 tones that clash in the scale. This is what this course is about.

You are going to play around with these 5 tones around, making them long and short, moving them up and down to put them into rhythm & musical phrases.
You are going to be so surprised how easy it is to write the first line of your solo using only these 5 tones.
Using these Pentatonic Tones, you can also create runs and fills that you can freely put into your music to wow you audience.
You will learn the rhythmic pattern of 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8

To add extra bonuses to the course, you will learn to play 5 songs that are written in Pentatonic Tones.

For the advanced musicians, you will learn to improvise over these songs in different Keys using different Pentatonic scales.

You don't need to be afraid of improvising anymore or be scared of playing lousy music because in the pentatonic scale, all the tones sound good with no clashes when you improvise them over a set of chord progressions.

In the Circle of 5ths Level 3 Course:

7 Parts in Pentatonic Music Theory & Practice:

Part 1 - Circle of 5ths Formula for Major Pentatonic Scales
Part 2 - Fun Ear Training
Part 3 - 7 Fun Solo Improvisation - Sing / Hum to the Pentatonic tones in Runs
Part 4 - First Line of Songs - Pentatonic Tones
Part 5 - How to Compose your first line
Part 6 - Songs written in Petatonic Tones
Part 7 - Improvise over the Pentatonic Songs

5 Fun Ear Training to imprint the Pentatonic Sounds into your heart

7 Fun Solo Improvisation

20 Guiding Rules when playing Pentatonic sounds

9 Fun Activities for you to practice the Pentatonic sounds

By the end of the course, you will have the confidence to create your first solo and be proud of playing your first piece of composition.

My students are having fun in here. Join us and enroll into this course to make your dream come true,

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Learning objectives

Compose your first dream song!
Rock with your first solo
Create solos using the pentatonic scale tones
Improvise freely
Identify the 5 tones in a major pentatonic scale
Discover the ease of improvising on the pentatonic scale tones
Make music with confidence
Spot out pentatonic sounds in songs

Have fun finding the first line of songs with pentatonic sounds
Avoid the 2 tones that will clash in your music
Use the circle to play all 12 major pentatonic scales
Make music impromptu with the 5 unique tones
Create beautiful sounding runs and fills using pentatonic tones
Improvise over 5 songs using pentatonic tones over chord progressions
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Compose your first dream song!
Rock with your first solo
Create solos using the pentatonic scale tones
Improvise freely
Identify the 5 tones in a major pentatonic scale
Discover the ease of improvising on the pentatonic scale tones
Make music with confidence
Spot out pentatonic sounds in songs
Have fun finding the first line of songs with pentatonic sounds
Avoid the 2 tones that will clash in your music
Use the circle to play all 12 major pentatonic scales
Make music impromptu with the 5 unique tones
Create beautiful sounding runs and fills using pentatonic tones
Improvise over 5 songs using pentatonic tones over chord progressions
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Syllabus

Students will have an overview of the course

Welcome to the course - Compose your first song using Major Pentatonic Tones

Overview of the Course

Learn the 5 Tones of the Pentantoic scale from the Circle

Major Pentatonic Scale - 5 Tone Scale

Major Pentatonic Tones - No dissonant interval sounds

Simple Trick to find 12 Major Pentatonic Scales in the Circle of 5ths

Fun Activity 1: Use my Formula to find 12 Major Pentatonic Scales in the Circle

Answer Sheet to Activity 1

Listen to the tones of the Pentatonic Tones so that you can sing them

Fun Ear Training 1: Pentatonic Tones in Different Keys

Fun Ear Training 2: 12 Major Penatonic Keys in Order

Fun Ear Training 3: Listen to the 12 Major Pentatonic Sounds by Ear

Fun Ear Training 4: Listen to the Oriental flavor of Pentatonic tones

Fun Activity 2: Play around with the C Major Pentatonic Tones

Students learn how to play pentatonic tones to let them sing

Guiding Rule 1: To make music & create solos, we must improvise in Rhythm

Guiding Rule 2: Music Sounds Great going up sequentially in 4/4

Guiding Rule 3: Keyboard Fingering Tip - Thumb leading the first tone

Fun Activity 3: Practice your Solo 1: Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

Pentatonic tones coming down create beautiful runs like waterfall rushing down

Guiding Rule 4: Melodies like to come down sequentially in 4/4

Guiding Rule 5: Keyboard Fingering Tip - Pinkie as Guiding point

Guiding Rule 6: Sing in your heart - Can you hear waterfall rushing down?

Fun Activity 4: Practice your Solo 2: Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

Learn how to play pentatonic sounds in groups of 4 up & down

Guiding Rule 7: To create drama for intros & endings, go up & come down

It's important that you sing along so that these tones are imprinted in your mind. Music sings. Music is not just all notes. We want to create melodies. We want to compose songs. We want to write our first solos. So let your heart sing as you play. Some people are very passive when they play music. They don't sing. They just listen. Learn to sing as you play. If you don't think that you are a good singer, you can sing with your heart! If you can't sing, you can hum along with your heart!

Fun Activity 5: Practice your Solo 3: Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

This melodic solo line creates beautiful runs & fills for 3/4 and 6/8 songs

Guiding Rule 9: Waltz Dance Music is played in Groups of 3

Guiding Rule 10: Fingering Tip for Keyboard - Use Thumb to Guide 1 2 3

Guiding Rule 11: Play Triplets in 2 Groups for 6/8 Time

Fun Activity 6: Practice your Solo 4: Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano & Ukulele

Guiding Rule 12: Create a Spiral Effect - 2 Groups of Triplets coming down

Guiding Rule 13 : Fingering Tip for Keyboard: Pinkie to guide in every 6th note

Guiding Rule 14: When 6/8 coming down in Fast Tempo - Twirling in a Dance

Fun Activity 7: Practice your Solo 5: Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

Know that music goes up and down alternating by skipping a tone

Guiding Rule 15: Skipping a Tone & Alternating Up

Guiding Rule 16: Fingering Tip for Keyboard: Thumb on the First Note

Guding Rule 17: Walking Steps at Different Tempo

Fun Activity 8: Practice your Solo 6 Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

Alternating and Skipping a tone coming down make beautiful music

Guiding Rule 18: Skipping a Tone & Alternating down

Guiding Rule 19: Fingering Tip for Keyboard: Pinkie as the guiding point

Guiding Rule 20: Can you hear Raindrops keep falling on your head?

Fun Activity 9: Practice your Solo 7 Sheet Music with Guitar, Piano, Ukulele

Students learn to listen to the first line of songs

First line of songs Part 1 - Beginning with Pentatonic Tones

Fun Activity 10: Find first line of songs that begins with Pentatonic tones

First line of songs Part 2 - Beginning with Pentatonic Tones

First line of songs Part 3 - Beginning with Pentatonic Tones

Students need to know that we love singing to the lyrics in the songs

Activity 11: Write out the lyrics of these first line of songs

Answer Sheet to the First Lines of the Songs

Composing the First line of song is the toughest!

Activity 12: Writing lyrics to your first new song

Students need to know that lyrics convey the duration of melody tones

Song 1: O Christmas Tree - Pentatonic Numbers under the syllables of the words

Spot out the 'long tones' and the 'short tones'

Students need to have practice to write long tones & short tones

Practice Activities

Song 2: Changing Partners - Long tones & short tones

Answer: Changing Partners

Song 3: Do Re Mi - Long Tones & Short Tones

Answer: Do Re Mi

Song 4: Kum Ba Yah: Long tones and Short Tones

Answer: Kum Ba Yah

Song 5: My Way: Long tones and Short tones

Answer: My Way

Song 6: O Susanna: Long tone and Short tones

Answer Sheet: O Susanna

Song 7: Silent Night, Holy Night

Answer Sheet: Silent Night, Holy Night

Song 8: Silver Bells: Long tones and short tones

Answer Sheet: Silver Bells

Song 9: Tennessee Waltz: Long tones and Short tones

Answer Sheet: Tennessee Waltz

Song 10: Unchained Melody: Long tones and short tones

Answer Sheet: Unchained Melody

Song 11: Dashing Through The Snow: Long tones and short tones

Answer Sheet: Dashing Through the Snow

Students will understand how to put lyrics into Rhythm

We compose songs to rhythm

Song 1 Rhythm Step 1: O Christmas Tree - Find the emphasis in the lyrics

Song 1 Rhythm Step 2: Put the song into Time Signature - 3/4 or 4/4

Find out whether the song is written in 3/4 or 4/4

Song 2: Changing Partners

Song 2: Changing Partners Melody

Song 2 Rhythm Step 1: Changing Partners - Emphasis in the Lyrics

Song 2 Rhythm Step 2: Changing Partners - 3/4 or 4/4

Song 3: My Way

Song 3 Rhythm 1: My Way - Emphasis in the Lyrics

Song 3 Rhythm 2: My Way - is it 3/4 or 4/4?

Song 4: Silver Bells

Song 4 Rhythm 1: Silver Bells - Emphasis in Lyrics

Song 4 Rhythm 2: Silver Bells - Is it 3/4 or 4/4?

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Reinforce foundational music theory knowledge to better understand the Circle of Fifths and its applications.

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Review scales, chords, and key signatures.
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Complete online quizzes on music fundamentals.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2nd Edition

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Read the chapters on scales and key signatures.
Complete the exercises at the end of each chapter.

Pentatonic Scale Exercises

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Solidify understanding of pentatonic scales through repetitive exercises and improvisation.

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Practice playing pentatonic scales in all 12 keys.
Improvise short melodies using only pentatonic scales.
Record and analyze your improvisations.

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Search for online tutorials explaining the Circle of Fifths.
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Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory, Complete

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Work through the book chapter by chapter.
Complete all the exercises and quizzes.
Review the concepts regularly.

Compose a Short Pentatonic Melody

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Apply knowledge of the Circle of Fifths and pentatonic scales to compose an original melody.

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Choose a key and identify the corresponding pentatonic scale.
Create a chord progression using chords from that key.
Compose a melody using the pentatonic scale over the chords.
Record and share your composition.

Analyze Pentatonic Scales in Popular Songs

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Solidify understanding of pentatonic scales by identifying their use in popular music.

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Choose several popular songs from different genres.
Transcribe the melodies and identify the pentatonic scales used.
Analyze how the pentatonic scales contribute to the song's character.

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Music Theory Note by Note

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Provides a solid foundation in music theory, covering essential concepts like scales, chords, and rhythm in an accessible manner. It's particularly helpful for beginners who need a gentle introduction to the fundamentals before diving into the specifics of pentatonic scales and improvisation. The book's clear explanations and practical examples make it a valuable resource for understanding the underlying principles of music. It can be used as a reference or for self-study.

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Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory, Bk 3

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Widely used textbook for music theory courses. It offers a structured approach to learning music theory, with clear explanations and numerous exercises. It is particularly useful for students who want a more in-depth understanding of music theory concepts and their practical applications. This book adds more depth to the existing course and is commonly used as a textbook at academic institutions.

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