Turquoise Learning Portfolio Music Theory I

  Lesson 3: Major Scales and Major Keys Lecture Notes: The order of sharps (#'s) in  key signature is the order of flats ( ♭'s) inverted. (F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E#, B# and B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭, C♭, F♭) In order to remember a major scale from a key signature with flats (♭'s), look at the 2nd to last flat of the key signature and that would be considered the major key. In order to remember a major scale from a key signature with sharps (#'s), look at the last sharp of the key signature, raise that same note half-step higher and that would be considered the major key   Both images from:  https://www.musicnotes.com/now/tips/key-signature-hacks-easy-tricks-for-memorizing-major-and-minor-keys/ Here's a YouTube video from "Brad Harrison Music". In this video, He talks about everything you need to know about key signatures and how they can effect the outcome of a piece of music if used correctly and incorrectly. The circle of fifths is  a sequence of keys represented

Lesson 2: Simple and Compound Meters Lecture Notes: Musical meters work by ways in which the beats are grouped and divided. Simple meters have beats that are divided into twos (2). Compound meters have beats that are divided into threes (3).   Both images are from:  https://www.musictheoryacademy.com/how-to-read-sheet-music/simple-and-compound-meter/ Here's a YouTube video from "MusicTheoryGuy". In this video, He talks about how simple and compound meter works and how you can identify them. Here's another YouTube video from "Alethia 27". In this video, she helps you better understand how to identify the differences between simple and compound duple, triple, and quadruple meters.  Here's a video of me playing, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the piano. The first time I broke down every note into 8th notes only so that you can see the individual counts of each beat. However, the second time I played it exactly as written in the excerpt.  Excerpt from

  Lesson 1: Pitch and Pitch Class Lecture Notes There are seven ( 7 ) letter names in the musical alphabet. ( A , B ,  C ,  D ,  E ,  F , and G ) On the piano, all white keys fit with the seven letters of the musical alphabet. All black keys relate to the seven-letter names of the musical alphabet, but instead names after a sharp ( # ) or a flat ( b ). Enharmonic equivalents are notes or intervals with the same pitch but different names. (Example: C# and Db ) Here's a video that talks more about enharmonic equivalents. Intervals: Tones and Semitones Intervals are the distance between two pitches. Semitones (half steps) are the smallest intervals that are distant to the very next note on the piano. Tones (whole steps) are intervals that are distant from one note to another that has one note between them. Chromatics are a set of twelve (12) different pitches that are made up of using only semitones. Here's a video that talks more about Chromatic Scales . The Youtuber, " M