My good friend Stephane will be teaching a one night “Slackademics” class on Music Theory/How to Read Music on Wednesday, Oct 11 @ 7pm. Venue will be either his place (cats) or my place (cat) depending on the number of respondents (me= Oak & 13th Ave, Stephane = 12th Ave & Glen). Right now we have the following interested parties:
John M
Michael B
Toren
Chris G
I know there are other interested parties (David, Amanda) but I haven’t heard from them on availability for the date/time.
Note that this is also a potluck! Stephane says:
I don’t have any specific food requests for the potluck. I’m sure there’ll be food I like there. (I don’t like onions and funny mayonnaise-based dishes)
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Here are possible topics I could cover. If anybody feels any of this is redundant or not interesting,
1) Explain the two main musical clefs/staffs
2) Run through all the types of notes and rests for those that don’t remember from elementary school music (it’s all simple math)
3) Go through the note value of each note on the staff.
4) A brief run-through of the history and evolution of musical theory, both in the West and in the East.
5) A brief run-through of the ‘periods of music’ in the West (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 1900s) and its main contributors, along with interesting facts about their lives/music.
6) Talk about the differences and correlations between Major/Minor keys
7) Go through the key chart explaining how to figure out how many sharps/flats are in each key, and what the corresponding Major/Minor keys are.
8) Run through some scales in both Major and Minor keys.
Those are all the basics, so depending on every one’s level we could just skim that and go into more advanced. Let me know if you have any comments or requests.
Please contact me if you or anyone you know is interested in attending!
Slackademics – BSing our way to higher education