What Kind of What kind of Musician Are You?

There are six or seven “kinds” of musicians. Most worship leaders are stronger in one area than in another. This is to help you in your own self-awareness.

self-assessment quiz

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Overview of the entire course

Watch this video to see where all of the topics are going. Who knows? Maybe you already know all of it!

Self-Assessment quiz

Let’s find out how well you already understand all of these concepts.

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EAR TRAINING

1          The Cues of Scale Degrees (stable, unstable)

2          Melodic Intervals (in context)

3          Naked Intervals (out of context)

4          Hearing Chords

5          Hearing Voicing (It’s all about voicing)

NOTATION

1          Cracking the Rhythm Code (notes, rests, and signs of the times)

2          Noticing Pitch Notation (clefs and other)

3          Key Signatures

4          Accidentals (how we got in this mess)

5          Alternative notation systems. MIDI events, neumes, etc.

FUNCTIONAL HARMONY

1          Primary Chords in Three Languages

2          Secondary Chords in Three Languages

3          The Circle of Fifths and Bass Law

4          Gravitational Pull and Planet Tonic

5          Localized Intervallic Tendencies and seventh chords (a love triangle)

CLASSICAL FORM

1          Phrases

2          Key areas

3          Short song structures in folk music

4          Identifying instrumentation

5          Recognizing the Antepenult Cue

POP STYLINGS

1          Phatness Quotients

2          251 (Bass Law in the Pop World)

3          Chord Loops

4          Chord Substitutions

5          Chord Extensions

MELODIC SENSITIVITY

1          Intervallic tendencies

2          Pandiatonicism

3          The Blues Third

4          Schenker 3 patttern, 5 pattern

5          Predicting Melodies (Melodizing Harmonies, Harmonizing Melodies)