Bass – Music Theory

Music Theory – Harmony

• The Musical Alphabet

• Music Notation

• Notes on the Staff

• How to Read Tablature

• Accidentals

• Enharmonic Spellings

• Dynamics

• Ear Training

• The Major Scale

• The Minor Scale

• The Blues Scale

• Scale Manipulation

• Intervals

• Major Pentatonic Scale

• Major Pentatonic Scale with Added b3rd

• Harmonizing the Major Scale

• Arpeggios

• Chord/Scale Relationships

• Chord Substitution and Reharmonization

• Relative and Parallel Minor

• The Modes of the Major Scale

• Key Signatures

• Determining Key Signatures

• Melody

• The Circle of Fifths

• The Chromatic Scale

• Chord Construction

• Chord Inversions

• Chord Qualities

• Triads

• Seventh Chords

• 9th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

• 11th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

• 13th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

• Add9 Chords – Major & Minor

• Suspended Chords

• Altered Dominant Chords

• Extended Chords

• Slash Chords

• Chord Progressions

• Modulation

• Chord Embellishment

Music Theory – Rhythm

• Note and Rest Values

• Rests

• Ties

• Dots

• Rhythm and Meter

• Keeping a Steady Beat

• Maintaining a Steady Tempo

• Subdivisions

• How to Count and Play at the Same Time

• Time Signatures

• Rhythmic Ties

• Syncopation

• Polyrhythm and Polymeter