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來自 Berklee College of Music 的課程

Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange

167 個評分

Berklee College of Music

Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange

167 個評分

課程 3（共 4 門，Specialization Developing Your Musicianship）

After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the third course in the series. If you have a general understanding of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course will continue to help you understand musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into an intermediate level of harmony and ear training. The course will introduce you to new key signatures, and explore how they are constructed. You will continue to train your ear, learning to differentiate between the various intervals and chords that were explored in Developing Your Musicianship I and II. You will learn how to borrow chords from parallel tonalities (modal interchange), and how to write more common chord progressions. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform a composition using popular chord progressions. As with Developing Your Musicianship I and II, this course is designed to share the joy of creating music.

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Lesson 1

This week, we will explore the key of Eb Major and B minor. We will also learn about chord tensions and harmonic function, or, in other words, how chords function within a tonal center. We will continue to develop our ears by aurally identifying chord progressions and chord qualities.

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George W. Russell, Jr.
Professor
Harmony/Piano

[MUSIC]

First thing I'd like to do is a quick review of what we covered in developing

your musicianship two.

Of course we started with the major scale and in musicianship

two you remember we did the keys of F and G, so why don't I start with that.

F major scale, and as with every other major scale it has the same

construction, whole step, whole step,

half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step, so F major scale.

Then we talk about the fact that every major scale has a related minor scale.

You find out related minor scale by simply going down three half steps.

And in this case f is our major scale down three half steps is d minor.

Now the reason why they're so closely related and

connected is that they share the same key signature.

And they also share the same notes.

F-major scale has one flat, B-flat.

D natural minor scale.

[MUSIC]

Has one flat also so it's almost like playing F major scale starting at D.

The only difference the tonal center.

F major scale is a nice major tonal center

D minor, it's a minor tonal center.

[MUSIC]

Related minor.

Another thing we cover were four popular progressions.

The first one was the one chord to the four

chord to the five chord to the one chord.

Very very popular progression.

One, four, five, one,

we also did the progression that went four minor,

five six-minor, four, five, six.

Now, if I did it in the key of F, it would be four,

B-flat, five, C, six, D-minor.

A third progression we covered was,

going from the one chord to the sixth minor chord.

One chord.

Six minor chord.

One chord, six minor chord.

This time I'll add the seventh to it so it will be F major seven, to d minor seven

[MUSIC]

Then the last progression we did was one that started at the four chord,

went to the three, then two, then one.

So in the key of F, it will be four major,

three minor, two minor, one major.

If we include the 7th, it will 4 major 7, 3 minor 7, 2 minor 7, 1 major 7.

So, those were all the popular progressions

that we cover in developing your musicianship two.

Another topic we cover was again developing your ear and

we work on intervals.

And the intervals we worked on were the minor second,

[MUSIC],

the Jaws-like,

[MUSIC].

We did the minor third.

[MUSIC]

Minor third.

We also did the minor 6,

[MUSIC]

minor 6.

We also did the minor 7

[MUSIC]

minor 7.

Intervals.

Another topic that we covered was identifying chord

qualities by hearing them.

And those chord qualities that we cover were the major 7 chord,

[MUSIC]

Which has a brighter sound some might say a happier sound.

We did the minor seven.

A little bit darker of a sound, a little warmer.

Then we did the dominant seven chord.

And that dominant seven chord has the interval of a triad tone

[MUSIC]

Which is what we also covered to.

And that triad chord creates a little tension

[MUSIC].

Just a little tension

[MUSIC].

So once again, we had major seven

[MUSIC]

minor seven

[MUSIC]

dominant seven

[MUSIC]

and the last one was a minor seven, flat five, also known as a half diminished.

F sharp minor seven, flat five

[MUSIC]

That one normally proceeds a 5 7 chord so you hear that sound a lot.

Minor 7 flat 5, to 5 7.

If I were in the key of F and

I play the two minor 7 flat 5 it will be G minor 7 flat 5.

So the five seven C and then you

often hear it go to the one chord.

The last topic I'll mention is the major pentatonic scale.

The major pentatonic scale is constructed right out the major scale.

Except you don't include the 7th, and you don't include the fourth so

you have the 1 the 2 the 3, the 5 and 6.

If we are in the key of C, It will be C, D, E, G, A.

And of course there is a little song that went along with it,

that went something like this 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6,

5, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 5, 3, 2, 1.

You'll probably have that song ringing in your head for the rest of the day.

Are you guys ready for developing your musicianship 3?

All right, we're ready to start our journey right now

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