Prerequisites:

Before you can study advanced music theory, you need to know basic music theory! This course is meant for high school students who have spent a significant amount of time in private music lessons, band, orchestra, and/or choir. The student should know the following before beginning the Advanced Music Theory course.

Learn or review:

• The notes of the lines and spaces on the staff
• What each note and rest is called
• Music symbols and what they're called
• Basic music terms and what they mean
• Key signatures
• Instruments of the orchestra
• The music time periods and major composers of each

**If you don't feel confident in your knowledge of the above, please do the Beginning Music Theory for Teens course first.

Getting Extra Help/Leaving Comments:

If you ever have any questions, you can leave a comment right there at the lesson. If you'd like to send me a video to review and it doesn't allow you to upload it as a comment, you can upload to Google Drive and then share the link with [email protected]. Also, send me an email so I can be looking out for it.

Requirements:

1.Order your textbook here. AP Music Theory: with 2 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep) Fourth Edition by Scoggin

2. Acquire a piano or keyboard. (An inexpensive keyboard with at least 3 octaves will work for this class. Check a local resale or pawn shop. Or, get one from here.)

3. Acquire a church hymnal. (Check with friends, a resale shop like Goodwill, or order from a site such as AbeBooks or Half-Price Books.) There is also a hymnal down below with 10 hymns that you can print or use online as well.

4. Print out any of the following printables and/or worksheets (scroll down) that will help you learn or review the concepts that you'll learn in the lessons.

5. Download the app Flashnote Derby and practice identifying quickly the notes of the treble and bass clefs, including the ledger lines above and below the staffs.

6. You'll need a college-level music theory textbook if you're planning on taking the AP Music Theory exam to get college-level credit. If you aren't going to take the exam, you don't need this resource. Here's a good choice: Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne at AbeBooks. It doesn't matter which edition. You'll just use it as a reference.