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18-Session Course: Music Fundamentals

Finally! The course we've all been waiting for! A solid, useful, foundational presentation of the structural realities of hymns and good music. Using the textbook Music in Theory and Practice, learn to identify chords, chord progressions and so much more!





Music Fundamentals

Session 2

Music Fundamentals

Session 3

Music Fundamentals

Session 4

Music Fundamentals

Session 5

Music Fundamentals

Session 6

Music Fundamentals

Session 7

Music Fundamentals

Session 8

Music Fundamentals

Session 9

2019 Music Seminar

Music and Emotions: Ephesians 5


Music Theory Classes

Here is a direct link to the YouTube videos of Christopher Brellochs. He is not affiliated with Kardia Music in any way. Disclaimers aside, the information about the structural laws of music contained in these free classes is useful for any composer, arranger, church musician, and song leader. 



Music Theory Lesson 2

  • Minor scales using a key signature
  • Intervals


Music Theory Lesson 3

  •  Inversion of Intervals
  • Consonant and Dissonant Harmonic Intervals - (with brief discussion of the overtone series, timbre, and how emotion is created in music)


Music Theory Lesson 4

  • Writing intervals below a given pitch
  • Writing intervals above a given pitch
  • Identifying a given interval 
  • Scale review 


Music Theory Lesson 5

  • Rhythm, beat, tempo
  • Note Values and Rests
  • Dotted Notes and Ties 
  • Triplets
  • Meter
  • Simple vs. Compound Meter and Time Signatures


Music Theory Lesson 6

  • Relationship of Meter to Beat 
  • Division of the Beat
  • Time Signature 
  • Renotating from one time signature to another 
  • How to fill in an incomplete measure with rests 
  • Identifying the best time signature for an example


Choral Conducting/Song Leading Lesson 1

Choral conducting crash course, with accompanying worksheets, taught by

Max Taylor


Understanding Time Signatures in Written Music

(See downloadable worksheet below)


Choral Conducting Lesson 2

Technical Choral Conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)

Choral Conducting Lesson 3

Using proper techniques for successful conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)

Choral Conducting Lesson 4

Exploring tools for good choral conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)