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These small video tutorials enable you to understand the basics of music. So, how to tune a guitar, play a bar chord, perform a little easy piece in a Folk style. You can also easily learn how to find the key of a song, re-harmonize a melody, creating a harmonic sequence or interpret the dynamics of a musical piece. But also, you will know how to read and play a rhythmic syncopation, mix eighth notes and sixteenth notes together, decipher the chord symbols, improvise on your instrument, or a play a basic scale on the piano etc .. View more |
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This section is dedicated to musical analysis of worldwide hits of classical music, pop rock song and film music, for musicians, composers and arrangers of music who wish to understand, in a very simple way, how they were composed, arranged, recorded and produced. These detailed musical analysis concerns the structure or overall musical form of the piece, the composition of the melodic themes, the harmony and chord progressions, the rhythmic domain, the arrangements and orchestration, and finally, a glossary of the main musical terms . See more |
Learn music on video, it's easy !
This superb collection includes
ten volumes and ten DVD and allows the musician beginner to follow some clear and
concise
music courses, in order to acquire the essential basics of the musical
language.
The
music theory course examines
the basic elements of music through the study of all signs which are necessary in order to read and write music. The
stave with five lines and four spacings, the
seven
notes, the alterations of the notes, the note durations, the two main
clefs in order to read the notes, the values of the rests, the extensions of the
notes such as the seventh, the eleventh and the thirteenth, the rhythmic dot and
tie, the ternary
triplets, the musical movement, the fermata or suspension
of time, the dynamics and steps of intensity, the accented notes related to
the phrasing, the simple and compound measures, the rhythmic
syncopation and offbeat,
the
keys and tonal modulations, the
scales and other melodic modes, the
intervals
of music.
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The
musical rhythm course allows
the musician to set in motion the notes of the music, through the individual
study of the various
note values, their combination and their place within
the measure. So, we will study the figures of notes such as the
whole note (four beats), the
half note (two beats), the
quarter note (one beat), the eighth note
(half beat), the
sixteenth note (quarter of the beat), the thirtysecond note (eighth
of the beat), and the sixtyfourth note (sixteenth of the beat). We will also
study atypical rhythms such as the
syncopations and offbeats, and different
rhythmic combinations of all previous rhythms, with a binary and a ternary
feeling.
free lesson
As an essential introduction to
the basics of
music composition, the study of the
melody helps us to understand
how are composed and played the famous themes of music. The composition of a
success melody depends on various parameters such as: the
upward or downward motions, its constituent
intervals, its division into sentences and
phases,
its ambitus or dimensions of its range, the
scales or
modes that it uses, the
mixture of harmonic or
non-harmonic notes, the quality of its ornamentation, or
its close association with the musical rhythm.
free lesson
The understanding of the
chord
structure by the intervals, is an essential introduction to the of musical
harmony techniques.
Consonant or dissonant, in open or closed position, with
two
or more sounds, simple or doubled, all of the basic chords are reviewed here,
with their
alterations and extensions, their
symbols in both classical and jazz
styles, their inversions and their positions: in third, in fourth or in cluster.
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This musical harmony course will
make you understand how to handle a
chain of chords, to create and play some
chord progressions, to
harmonize a melody in order to bring colors to it. You
will also learn how to use the different
voices of harmony, their movement from
a chord to another, the harmonic frequency within the measures, the breathings
or major
harmonic cadences, the harmonic or
non harmonic notes, the main rules
of harmonic writing, the building of the harmonic sequences and the
modulation process of a musical piece.
free lesson
In order to better interpret or
compose a piece of music, it is important to know the
structure, in other words
the order of the different sections of a musical composition. This musical
forms course describes the structure of
classical pieces,
songs and jazz
standards. The "Sonata" structure with its exposure, development, recapitulation
and coda, the "Lied" and its structure divided into three parts, the "song" or
"Rondo" structure alternating verses and choruses, the "suite" of ancient dances,
the scherzo and the minuet with their tripartite form, the "variation" and its
different presentations of the thematic element, or the fugue and its constant
counterpoint.
free lesson
This course is about the
instrumental techniques that will give the composer, arranger and
orchestrator,
all the necessary techniques of the musical instruments used as soloists, or
within an orchestra, through the study of their tuning, range, sound and playing
techniques. All instrumental families are studied: the woodwinds, the Brass, the
strings, the percussions, the keyboards and the vocals.
free lesson
The study of the
piano is
essential to all musicians, pianists or non pianists, because as a polyphonic,
melodic and percussive instrument, it allows to handle the harmonic techniques
as well as the hand and
finger independence. This piano lesson for beginner goes
through all the points of music theory applied to the keyboard, by the
performance of little pieces for beginners. The techniques included are: the
scale and arpeggio, the
note values, the rhythmic dot and tie, the rests, the
motion and melodic phrasing, the harmonic modulation, the dynamics, the chords
played with both hands and the melodic ornaments, and the use of the pedals.
free lesson
the
improvisation course is
useful in order to develop the qualities of creativity of any musician. Like a
composition of the moment, the improvisation opens wide horizons to the musician,
whatever his instrument is, but this teaching should be based on a solid
theoretical basics, through the mastery of
chords, scales, scales - chord
relationships, rhythm,
accompaniment and patterns development.
free lesson
the music
analysis course
requires a perfect knowledge of all the elements of the musical language that
are: the
music theory, harmony, songwriting,
instrumental techniques of the orchestra,
orchestration ect ... It helps to better interpret and compose
the musical works by analyzing the
structure, the main
themes, the harmonic
progressions, the modulation and the orchestra.
free lesson
What is it
The Musiclassroom.com website is a music portal proposing music courses on videos, in order to follow online music lessons as diverse as: music theory, classical piano, jazz piano and piano accompaniment, guitar, improvisation, ear training, music notation, harmony, composition, arranging, orchestration or song writing, within three progressive levels of difficulty: beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
This website also allows you to download thousands of free
sheet music for piano,
instrumental or vocal ensembles, guitar tabs, to follow many Karaoke videos
along with downloading song
lyrics,
and to download multiple formats of Free
blank music paper.
But Musiclassroom is also the place for free music that allows you
to read a musical
analysis of the
masterworks in the different styles of classical music, jazz, song and film
music, as well as videos
Tutorials in order to
acquire as simply as possible, all the basics of music theory.
Musiclassroom also proposes some
music news and
selects for you the latest CD releases, the concerts and music festivals to come,
and the discovery of artists and musicians in the fields of: song, pop rock,
classical, jazz or film music styles.
Musiclassroom also includes a WebTV selecting for you the best
music videos of
the most famous artists of the Youtube planet, amateurs or professional
musicians & singers interviews from very diverse backgrounds, sharing their
passion with us,
Finally, The Musiclassroom recording studio will
allow musicians to get through their musical creations in a professional studio,
in order to make an album, a soundtrack or even a musical score, and upon
request, to obtain the making of sheet music on purpose of copyright
protection.