Overview
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Find out how to notate pitch duration, time signature, scale, rhythm, and chord progressions and produce easy-to-read sheet music that clearly expresses your musical ideas.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- The staff: Background and purpose
- Treble clef
- Bass clef
- Grand staff
- Percussion and the neutral clef
- C clefs
- Which clefs should I know?
- Whole, half, and quarter notes
- Stems
- Time signatures and bar lines
- Whole, half, and quarter rests
- 8th and 16th notes
- 8th and 16th note rests
- Dots and ties
- Tuplets: Triplets and more
- Time signatures II
- Accidentals
- Scales and intervals
- Minor scales
- Key signatures and key changes
- The circle of 5ths
- Dynamics
- Real-time dynamic change
- Tempo and style markings
- Tempo change
- Performance instructions
- Articulations
- Expression and articulation example
- Rehearsal marks, numbers, and barlines
- Measure repeats
- Repeat barlines
- DC and DS repeats
- Chord basics
- Notating chord symbols
- Inversions, slash chords, and polychords
- Nashville Number System
- Slash notation
- Rhythmic notation
- Alternate noteheads
- Notating vocal music
- Notating lyrics
- Vocal and lyric examples
- Score setup: Page basics
- Score setup: Spacing
- Score setup: Transposing instruments
- Part setup
- Piano parts
- Guitar part
- Drum part
- Score
- Lead sheet
- Next steps
