A foundational presentation of the structural realities of hymns. Using the textbook Music in Theory and Practice, learn to identify chords, chord progressions and so much more!

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7 Evidences for Godly Music: Foundational Verses;

Testimonials of Unstable Music;

Character Traits of God vs. the World;

The History of Music;

Music Laws for Stable Music;

Emotional Definition

Music and Emotions: Ephesians 5

History of the 

Rhythm of Rock

Here is a direct link to the YouTube videos of Christopher Brellochs.  The information about the structural laws of music contained in these free classes is useful for any composer, arranger, church musician, and song leader. 

• Minor scales using a key signature
• Intervals

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

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

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

• 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 crash course, with accompanying worksheets, taught by

Max Taylor

Understanding Time Signatures in Written Music

(See downloadable worksheet below)

Technical Choral Conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)

Using proper techniques for successful conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)

Exploring tools for good choral conducting

(See accompanying downloadable worksheet below)