Objectives
- Break away from loops and write your own chord progressions and melodies
- Learn practical music theory
- Learn essential scales, chords, rhythms, and techniques
- Compose an original track featuring you on keys
Topics
- Music Theory on the Keyboard
- Understanding scale degrees
- Scales and Melody
- Five-finger scales
- Major scales
- Minor scales
- Keyboard Technique
- Basic key fingerings
- Combining chords and melodies
- Essential Chord Progressions
- Building triads
- Common chord progressions
- Rhythm
- Arpeggios
- Playing to a metronome
Goals
- You will be able to write original chord progressions and melodies, so you don’t have to hand draw MIDI note-by-note and improve your music production workflow.
- You will create an original track featuring piano to perform for the class.
