Candice AlderferApr 21, 20209 minBuilding Major Scales!Hey Guys! Today I’m going to be talking to y’all about creating major scales! The major scale is one of the most essential scales to lear...
Candice AlderferApr 21, 20202 minDouble Sharps and Flats Wassup Guys! I wanted write a quick post today talking about the use of double sharp and flat accidentals in major scales! I'm posting a ...
Candice AlderferMar 25, 20201 minEnharmonic EquivalentsHey Guys! It's been a super long time since I've updated on my music blogs. Life got the best of me for a while but I'm going to change t...
Candice AlderferMay 9, 20192 minBass and Treble ClefI've been writing down a lot of letters to document my learning when it comes to reading notes. But in order to really read or write musi...
Candice AlderferMay 8, 20191 minIntervals of the C Major ScaleI've posted before about intervals and being able to distinguish both the type and quality of distances between notes, but I wanted to dr...
Candice AlderferMay 6, 20191 minMajor, Minor, Augmented and Diminished Triads for All Notes So, I've previously posted about how to make all these different triads and the interval formulas to create them. I wanted to draw out th...
Candice AlderferApr 27, 20192 minAll Major Scales for All Keys Before now, I was always extremely hesitant to jump into learning music theory because I associated everything with math. Math and music ...
Candice AlderferApr 24, 20196 minUnderstanding Sharps and Flats I'm sure that many of you would agree when I say that music would be a hell of a lot easier if everything were as simple to understand as...
Candice AlderferApr 18, 20194 minAll Modes, All Notes I am ALL about repetition. I like to write my major and minor scales every single day to keep my brain comfortable with knowing them by h...
Candice AlderferApr 17, 20192 minAugmented and Diminished Triads We've talked about building major and minor triads and the intervals within each of the three notes used to create them. To make a major ...
Candice AlderferApr 17, 20192 minMinor Scales: Harmonic and Melodic So, you thought there was only major and minor, huh? Well, so did I. But apparently, the natural minor scale comes with a posse. Kinda li...
Candice AlderferApr 16, 20192 minThe Moods of Music: ModesI like to think of modes as music having multiple personalities. Modes have different patterns that lay out the intervals between notes a...
Candice AlderferApr 14, 20192 minThe Building Blocks of (Minor) TriadsIn my last post I dove into major triads and the intervals used to create them. If you understand major triads then comprehending the dif...
Candice AlderferApr 14, 20192 minThe Building Blocks of Triads When In Doubt, Intervals There are many types of chords that can be made when we combine and stack notes on top of each other in differen...
Candice AlderferApr 12, 20193 minMajor and Minor Thirds Okay, what the hell. I thought this was music, not algebra. Music is not algebra, but let’s just say that music and math are basically li...
Candice AlderferFeb 17, 20191 minThe Best Visuals of Minor Scales on a Piano The best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are mi...
Candice AlderferFeb 16, 20193 minFinding Relative Minors Inside the circle of fifths, we place the relative minors to each of the corresponding notes on the outside of the circle. To find the re...
Candice AlderferFeb 15, 20193 minUnderstanding the Circle of Fifths The circle of fifths in music theory is used to represent the intervals between each of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale ( C, C#/D...
Candice AlderferFeb 13, 20191 minThe Best Visuals of Major Scales on a PianoThe best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are ma...