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Winter Term Starts January 11, 2010

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  • Music Theory 101

    Get the musical foundation you need to take your skills to a higher level. Learn to read, write, really listen…and put theory into practice every day!

  • Music Theory 201

    Become a more effective player and writer by furthering your music theory background. Learn more complex chords, progressions, and rhythms to open up your understanding of the elements that help put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock.

  • Music Theory 301

    Prepare yourself for any future musical endeavor and gain a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music in this advanced music theory course.

  • Basic Ear Training 1

    This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to notate basic rhythms and better identify the different parts of a song.

  • Getting Inside Harmony 1

    Use harmony creatively in your playing and writing. Learn to hear and modify chord progressions, improvise effectively from chord to chord and deepen your understanding of music's inner workings.

  • Getting Inside Harmony 2

    Take your harmonic development to the next level by gaining a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitution, and chromatically altered chords.

  • Harmonic Ear Training

    Put your harmonic theory into practice. Learn techniques that will improve your performance, arranging, and compositional skills by refining your ability to really hear and recognize what is going on within the chord progressions.

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