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Hands-on: What is music theory?

Lesson 1: What are notes & scales?

Everyone has probably heard what a note is, but its connection with vibrations and frequencies may not be familiar to everyone. There are twelve notes on our most familiar staff. In our most well-known system, there are twelve notes. Learn here how these notes are created and what frequencies and scales have to do with them. Let‘s go!

Lesson 2: What are chords & progressions?

As already mentioned in step 8, notes by themselves do not create emotion, but several notes played at the same time do. That brings us to chords. Different chords in a row are called progression and not only create more emotion, but also invite you to hum along. Now we‘ll show you how good chords and progressions are created.

Lesson 3: The Harmony Circle – The short way to a hit

The Harmony Circle is an extended circle of fifths. It not only shows the relationship of chords and keys, but also allows you to read their individual notes. With it, harmonic chords can be discovered in no time at all.

Lesson 4: Composing without reading music - with free software Autotonic SE

Simplified, Autotonic SE is a kind of intelligent note filter that allows you to find musically meaningful scales and phrases in the blink of an eye, even without prior musical knowledge or note reading. Or in other words: the entire music theory in one plug-in. Free for you as a BEAT reader.

Lesson 1: What are notes and scales?

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