Lesson 1: Building Major and Minor Triads

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1. Lesson I: Building Major and Minor Triads
2. Why study major and minor triads?
3. The bulk of the repertoire we perform use these harmonies. We address them frequently in rehearsal. NTTBS, if you could tune them without us, we could get to deeper levels in rehearsal.
4. How do I….?! Are you serious?
5. Lesson I Building Major and Minor Triads Lesson II Identifying Triads in “Horkstow Grange” Lesson III Tuning Roots and Balancing Chords in “Horkstow Grange” Lesson IV Master Transposition, and Scavenger Hunt! Identify Chords with your Section in ”Lincolnshire Posy” Lesson V Arranging Chord Progressions for Performance
6. (There will be a quiz on this content.)
8. Academic Language Interval: The distance between two notes. Intervallic Pattern: A formula for determining a specific scale.
9. The Intervallic Pattern for the First Five Notes of the Major Scale WWHW (W = whole step, H = half step)
10. Willy Wonka Hates Whoppers
11. Demo: Writing Out a Five Note Scale
12. Academic Language Triad: A chord of three notes that can be stacked in thirds. ⛄ All triads are chords, but not all chords are triads! Major Chord/Triad: A triad where the distance between the root and third notes is two whole steps, and the distance between the third and fifth is one and half step. (2W, 1.5W) Minor Chord/Triad: A triad where the distance between the root and third notes is one and half steps, and the distance between the third and fifth is two whole steps. (1.5W, 2W) Inversion: Rearrangement of top to bottom elements in music.
13. Demo: Writing Out Major and Minor Triads with Possible Inversions
14. W W H W 1 2 3 4 5
15. W W H W 1 2 3 4 5
16. Two Gotchas! 1. All chords and scales must be labeled with their mode (major, minor, etc.) 2. Scales can never have note names repeated.
17. One Step Further?
18. “Theoretical Triads” Same principles, just using double sharps and double flats!
19. Working in Pairs, Complete Page 2.