Music Theory for Beginners

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer reviews the modes and their scales, then presents a way to memorize the order of their sharped or flatted notes.

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer demonstrates how to construct the mirrored modes by using tetrachords with each of the modes in the LIMDAPL in C.

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer explains how to construct both the major and minor triads, following the leaps in intervals and using accidentals as needed.

In this lesson, follow along with Dominik Schirmer to learn the basic music theory behind constructing and writing out diminished and augmented chords.

In this lesson, Dominik Schirmer EDUcation explains how to add a 7th to chords and demonstrates how to find the major, minor, and diminished intervals.