Table of Contents

– Elementary terms and principles –

– The C major scale –

– Sharps, Flats and Naturals –

– The Sharp Keys –

– The Flat Keys –

– Major and Perfect Intervals –

– Minor, Diminished and Augmented Intervals –

– Transposing Melodies –

– Transposing Chromatic Melodies –

– Harmony –

– Building Chords in the Major Scale –

– Common Chord Progressions –

– Melody and Chords –

– Bass Lines –

– Chromatic Major Chords –

Transposing Chord Progressions –

– The Dorian Mode –

– The Phrygian Mode –

– The Aeolian Mode –

– Mixture of Major and Minor –

– The Harmonic Minor Scale –

– Chords of the Harmonic Minor Scale –

– Building Seventh Chords –

– The Dominant Seventh Chord –

– The Diminished Seventh Chord –