AUDIATION
Station
Audiation Station is a series of lessons that uses Music Learning Theory to teach audiation. Motivated students can follow these lessons, and learn to audiate music.
These free lessons will teach you the language of music: melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Melody
Learn the horizontal aspect of music: melody. You will learn basic melodic patterns in Major and Minor tonalities.
Harmony
Learn the vertical aspect of music: harmony. You will learn the primary harmonic functions in Major and Minor tonalities.
Rhythm
Learn the foundational layers of rhythm, and how to chant and improvise rhythm patterns in Duple and Triple meters.
If we accept Music Learning Theory as a learning model for how we learn music, we need to create a Teaching Model as a vehicle to put Music Learning Theory into action.
MLT tells us that we learn by contrast. Therefore, our initial audiation objectives will include
We will learn fundamental harmonic and melodic content for each tonality, and fundamental rhythmic functions for each meter.
In order to set goals for ourselves, we need to create benchmarks so we know when we have achieved a certain level of proficiency in our audiation.
I have not so arbitrarily defined a basic musicianship which I call Musicianship Level 1. Once achieved, a musician has basic competency in audiating both tonally and rhythmically.
In order to achieve the status of Musicianship Level 1, one must take the Tonal Lesson Trajectory and Rhythm Lesson Trajectory.
By the end, an assessment video is available to gauge the knowledge you acquired from both lessons.
This course is divided into 2 sections: Harmonic and Melodic. A total of 12 lessons is prepared for you.
By completing this course, you should be able to:
This course contains 8 lessons.
By completing this course, you should be able to:
Motivated students can download a syllabus, and work through the lessons at their own pace.
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