This looks useful if you need to quickly learn more about reading music and scales
DAY 1
MORNING
◾Introducing basic concepts: pitch, beat and rhythm
◾Basic units of simple time: crotchet, quaver, crotchet rest
◾The pentatonic scale: reading and singing la, so and mi
◾How to organise music-staves, time signatures and bar lines
AFTERNOON
◾Extending the pentatonic scale: do, re, mi, so and la
◾Extending rhythmic knowledge to include longer note values: minim, dotted minim, semibreve
◾How to read and compose simple pentatonic melodies
DAY 2
MORNING
◾Review of the pentatonic scale structure
◾Introduction to the pentachord and hexachord structures with new note fa
◾Shorter rhythmic values: semiquavers and combinations of quavers and semiquavers
◾Introducing absolute pitch
AFTERNOON
◾The full diatonic scale with new note ti
◾Introducing key signatures
◾Dotted rhythms-the dotted crotchet and dotted quaver
◾Brief introduction to the minor scale
Location: Edinburgh City
For further information, please contact rachael.king@ed.ac.uk (rachael.king@ed.ac.uk), or visit http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses
The deadline is Wednesday 03 August 2016 at 10:00.