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By the end of this course, you will have improved your tracks by understanding how to build chords and melodies that work together.
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Understand and apply minor chords
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Use the circle of fifths to generate new ideas for your own tracks
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Work within minor keys to write compelling melodies and basslines
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The Piano Roll editor
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Octaves
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Using Octaves in Bass Lines
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The Black Keys (not the band!)
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Finding C and Middle C
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The Perfect 5th
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Finding Fifths
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Being "in key"
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The pattern of a key
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Moveable Patterns
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The major and minor third
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Building triads
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Chord progressions
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What is diatonic?
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Finding all the chords in a key
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Using roman numerals
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Inversions
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7th chords
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Maj7 and minor 7th chords
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Dominant 7th chords
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Blues and the 7th chord
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Analysis: Shame On Me (Avicii)
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Minor scales
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Relative keys
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Minor diatonic chord progressions
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Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff (Deadmau5)
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Changing keys in your track
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Analysis: Get Luck (Daft Punk)
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9th and 13th chords
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Suspended Chords
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Writing melodies for chord progressions
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Writing chord progressions for melodies
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Bass lines
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Analysis: Windowlicker (Aphex Twin)
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Modes
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How modes work
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Producing with Modes
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Pentatonic Scales
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Chromatic Mediants
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Creating music with music theory
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Exotic scales