Book 1 Video Tutorials

Unit 1. The Origins of the Orchestra

• 1. The Origin of String Instruments

  2. The Baroque Era (1600-1750)

  3. Early Italian String Instrument Composers

Unit 2. The Staff, Clefs, and Note Names

• 1. The Staff and Ledger Lines

  2. Clefs

  3. Note Names

Unit 3. Rhythm and Time

• 1. Notes and Rests

  2. Stem Length, Placement and Direction

  3. Quarter Note Time Signatures

  4. (4-6) Quarter and Eighth Notes Rhythms

Unit 4. Introduction to Writing Music

• 1. Introduction to Writing Music

Unit 5. Understanding the Fingerboard Map

• 1. Half Steps and Whole Steps

  2. Natural Notes

  3. Sharps

  4. Flats

  5. Enharmonic Spelling

Unit 6. The classical Symphony and Chamber Music

• 1. The Classical Era (1730-1820)

  2. Franz Joseph Haydn

Unit 7. Chromatic Notation

• 1. Writing Accidentals

  2. How Accidentals Work

  3. Writing Chromatic Scales

Unit 8. Ties, Syncopation, and Dotted Rhythms

• 1. Ties and Syncopation

  2. Dotted Rhythms

Unit 9. Beethoven, Program Music, and Romanticism

• 1. Ludwig van Beethoven

  2. Program Music in the Romantic Era

Unit 10. Key Signatures

• 1. Major and Minor Seconds

  2. Introduction to Key Signatures

Unit 11. Compound Meter

1-2. Duple, Triple, Simple, and Compound Meters

3. Compound Time Signatures

4. Eighth Note Rhythms in Compound Meter

5. Tempo, Beats, and Meter

Unit 12. Music Today

12.1 Music Today

Unit 13. Creating Music

Additional Music Creating Resources

Additional Music Literacy Sites

Book 2 Video Tutorials

Unit 14. Fingerboard Map Review

• 1. Fingerboard Map Review

  2. Writing Chromatic Scales

  3. Reviewing Major and Minor Seconds

Unit 15. Simple Meter with Sixteenth Notes

• 1. Simple Meter Review

  2. (2-4) Sixteenth Note Rhythms in Simple Meter

Unit 16. The Baroque Masters

• 1. Johann Sebastian Bach

  2. George Frederick Handel

Unit 17. Tetrachords and Thirds

• 1. Introduction to Tetrachords

  2. The Four Tetrachords

  3. Major and Minor Thirds

Unit 18. Compound Meter with Sixteenth Notes

• 1. Compound Meter Review

  2. Sixteenth Note Rhythms in Compound Meter

Unit 19. Mozart and the Modern Bow

• 1. The Modern Bow

  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Unit 20. Major Scales in Sharp Keys

• 1. How Major Scales Are Built

  2. Scale Degrees

  3. The Order of Sharps

Unit 21. Major Scales in Flat Keys

• 1. Building Scales in Flat Keys

  2. The Order of Flats

Unit 22. Creativity Projects

• 1. The Cover Project

  2. Creating an Arrangement

Unit 23. Half Note Time Signatures

• 1. Half Note Time Signatures

  2. Subdividing the Half Note Beat

  3. Time Signatures: 6/4 vs 3/2

  4. Triplets

Unit 24. Musical Nationalism and Tchaikovsky

• 1. Musical Nationalism

  2. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Unit 25. Minor Key Signatures

• 1. Relative Minor

  2. Parallel Minor

  3. Major vs. Minor Melodies

Unit 26. Minor Scales

1-2. The Difference Between Major and Natural Minor

3. Harmonic Minor Scales

4. Melodic Minor Scales

Unit 27. Jam Session