Chords
Naming chords based on their degree of the scale.
Covers "Wild Thing" (I - IV - V - IV - I)
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Unit 10. Hooks and riffs, Danmans Music School
Uses guitar but theory explained in a non-instrument-specific way. Explains how using a 7th chord based on 5th degree (dominant) of new key is a good way to arrive there smoothly.
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 2b Creating and developing - reflective composing, Danmans Music School
Tags: key change
Uses guitar but theory explained in a non-instrument-specific way.
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 2b Creating and developing - reflective composing, Danmans Music School
Introduction to 7th chords and how to play them on guitar
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
How to play chords in the octave position
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
How to play F major second inversion (F/C)
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
Video tutorial
Official classification: Bass Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
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Official classification: Flute, Chords, Video, Danmans Music School
Video podcast demonstrating how to teach a C Major 12 Bar Blues progression on the piano. Students must have an understanding of 7th chords and inversions.
Official classification: Piano, Improvising, Chords, 12 Bar Blues, Video, Chord progressions, Unit 8. Jazz improvisations
Nonharmonic notes (or non-chord notes) are notes that do not belong in a certain chord.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Harmony, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Like triads, seventh chords can be inverted by moving the lowest note up an octave.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
In addition to diatonic triads, every major and minor scale has seven diatonic seventh chords.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
When analyzing music, each diatonic triad is identified by a roman numeral.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Triads, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Every major and minor scale has seven special triads, called diatonic triads, which are formed from that scale's notes.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
A chord is a combination of three or more notes.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Harmony, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
In music, the verb invert means to move the lowest note in a group an octave higher.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Intervals, Harmony, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
A Neapolitan chord is simply a major triad that is built on a special note.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Triads, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Although hundreds of different chord progressions are possible, most tend to follow a pattern.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Little Audrey, in the schoolroom, is sent to the corner stool to memorize Mother Goose rhymes. She falls asleep and dreams that she gets a tour of Mother Goose Land by Mother Goose herself.
KS3/4 idea: The juvenile subject matter makes it unlikely that secondary pupils will identify with this movie. But as an individual moment in the soundtrack, the place where Little Audry goes into her dream (about a third of the way through) is an interesting example of the use of non-diatonic harmony (whole tone chords etc.) to suggest that reality is moving to fantasy. There are also good examples of close-harmony vocals in both the opening titles and when a cow and 2 sheep perform during the fantasy.
Official classification: Chords, Film & Animation, Cartoons, Video, Cartoon, Curriculum support, Musical Cliches, Unit 5. Musical cliches
Tags: close harmony singing, whole tone chords
This 1906 orchestral piece describes New York's Central Park, the sounds of the city (quoting Sousa's Washington Post March) contrasting with the mysterious sounding strings describing the woods. It is recommended for listening in QCA Unit 13 'Painting with Sound' for KS2 but there is plenty for KS3&4 pupils to focus on, with Ives' use of shifting chords in the strings (a combination of different intervals thirds, fourths, and fifths) and his use of dissonance.
Official classification: Intervals, Chords, Discord, 1900-1949, Classical Pieces, Audio, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, United States, Unit 13 Painting With Sound , Curriculum support, Dissonance, Ives, Charles