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Lesson path VI

The Craft

Read the page. Map the song.

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Unit 18

The Staff

Five lines carry everything.
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18.1
Five lines, four spaces
Higher on the page is higher in pitch. Meet the grid.
EGB
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18.2
Every line has a name
EGBDF and FACE. Read notes at sight.
FAC
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18.3
Middle C & ledger lines
The staff keeps going. Little lines carry you past the edge.
CD
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18.4
Key signatures on the page
One sharp at the front beats writing it forty times.
F♯B♭
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18.5
Read your first melody
Pitch plus rhythm on one staff. You can read music now.
EFG
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Unit 19

Cadences & Color

Endings, borrowings, and hired engines.
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19.1
How phrases end
Authentic, plagal, half, deceptive. Four endings.
VIvi
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19.2
Borrowed colors
Unit 10's borrows, placed where they land hardest: the cadence.
ivbVIIbVI
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19.3
Hired engines
Any chord can bring its own V7. Meet V of V.
V7VI7
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Unit 20

Song Form

The map of the music.
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20.1
The map of a song
Verse, chorus, bridge. Rooms in one house.
viIIV
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20.2
Three classic maps
Verse-chorus, AABA, and twelve bars. Most songs live here.
IV
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