Music Theory for Beginners

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer demonstrates how accidentals written in music modify perfect intervals to become augmented or diminished intervals.

Learn how intervals are named according to how they are written in a piece of music, and get an introduction to doubly augmented and diminished intervals.

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer uses the C major scale to introduce the whole tone-semitone pattern for each of the seven different musical modes.

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer demonstrates how to write out each mode and explains how to ensure each step in the scale maintains proper tonality.