Brand new course: Reading Major Tonic

By Andy Mullen

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I have just released a brand new course called Tonal Reading 102: Reading Major Tonic. This free course teaches how to read and generalize major tonic patterns in several DO-signatures, and also has a lesson on how to combine tonic patterns with rhythm patterns in Reading Benchmarks. Check it out today!

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9 lessons

Tonal Reading 102: Reading Major Tonic

In this course, participants will learn to read three familiar major tonic patterns, and use these three patterns to generalize more tonic patterns. Finally, we will combine tonal patterns with rhythm patterns in Reading Benchmarks.

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About the author Andy Mullen

Andy Mullen is a teacher, folk musician, multi-instrumentalist, recovering singer-songwriter, and lifelong learner. He has taught all levels of students in a number of subjects, and is currently a middle school general music and choir teacher in Burlington, Massachusetts. Mr Mullen holds Masters degrees in Music Education and School Administration, and serves on the faculty for the Gordon Institute of Music Learning (GIML) in Elementary General Music. He is the author of "MLT Any Music Teacher Can Du...De," "The Literate Musician" and "Fifty Tunes for Teaching," and the composer of the children's album, "Chucka Chucka Wawa."