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Voicing and expanding dom7th chords

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 Dominant 7th voicing Practicing or keeping up with your craft is something everyone should be doing or focusing on. For musicians that would be working on out theory and our practical. Today we worked on a new craft or topic which was voicing dominant 7th chords. When going from the dominant 7th to the tonic, the leading tone in 5(7th) resolves to the tonic. The leading tone is created from the tonic and with the leading tone you should always take advantage of the common chords. It stabilizes the the chord progression.  This pic shows the inversions of a seventh chord and what's in the bass. In root position with the root in the bass the figured bass is 7. First inversion is the 3rd in the bass which is 6 5. Second inversion would be 4 3 with the 5th in the bass. The third inversion is the 7th in the bass. With inversions you must not double the third but you cant triple the root.  With seventh chords you can sometimes omit the fifth interval in the chord and you can al...
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SATB

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SATB  When someone say SATB, you start thinking of different words it can mean. SATB refers to a four part chords structure. Soprano, alto, tenor and bass. A built structure chord that can starts on the tonic, the dominant and the predominant. When writing music sometimes you may see notes with numbers. That's showing you that they belong in a specific octave. There different numbers base on the octave or ranges they can sing. As a Soprano there octaves or range can go from a C4 to a C6 and an Alto ranges from G3 to G5 and base on the picture you can see the other types of ranges for the other low parts. When writing a 4 part chordal structure there are notes you can not double, but some you can.  You can be able to double the root, and the third. In some instances you can double the third which is rarely, but that usual occurs in seventh chords. Just how there are some chords or notes you can double there’s notes such as Tendency notes you can not double.  We also explor...
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Intro to species

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Intro to counterpoint

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 INTRO to COUNTERPOINT One of the most interesting and sometimes hard working topics in music is Counterpoint. Counterpoint means  the relationship between two or more musical lines which are harmonically interdependent yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. In other words it means two lines or voices played harmonically together.   In Counterpoint there is something called Cantus Firmus. Cantus Firmus refers to a fixed melody or existing melody inside of a music. With the cantus firmus you must be able to create a voicing that fits with the fixed melody. Sometimes it is easy once you get the rules down. One of those rules would be to make sure that it goes in a step wise moion. In a cantus firmus there are rules you have to make sure you follow.  First Species counterpoint consists of consonant intervals such as ( P1, P5, P8, M6, m6, M3, and m3). In the picture there are different voicing and the alto clef is the cantus firmus. All of the other voices ends o...
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