Learning the basics

It can very difficult to know exactly where to start when teaching something like music theory. I think i,ve already mentioned that there are two most important aspects to music notation.

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Learning to read and write music - intro

There are two major things you need to know to understand how music is written. How sound is represented on the staff. And 2ndly how the length of sound is represented on the staff.

One of the problems with teaching something like music is one never knows where to start.

When I started at music school in 1985 I had no idea how music was written. But in less than a month i surprised myself: I was sitting on a piano trying to make some sense of a music score that i got from the library. The score did not have any title nor author. So I played. Struggled a little bit at first. Then suddenly as I was now beginning to play the score correctly I realised that this was one of the most popular songs / melodies on earth. I jumped from my piano chair out of excitement! I was so excited and began to hunt for more sheet music.

Later in this lessons i will create some songs, perhaps include some popular melodies. Try to play or sing these melodies. After some time I will send an audio of the same melodies and/or songs. That way you will be able to establish how well you can read and write music.

Here you will be able to send questions on anything that is not clear to you and we will be able to help.

There might also be some typos, omissions, logical errors that may affect meanings of sentences. Please let me know if you notice any such problem.

What is Multimedia

I use multimedia as a collective word for various types of media (mediums) rather than as a definition of a particular technology. I have worked as both Graphic Artist and Musician. I have over 24 years in both these fields. This kind of experience coupled with advanced and in-depth knowledge of Software applications such as Reason, CakeWalk, Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator, CorelDraw, 3D Studio Max, Blender, etc. There is a lot of knowledge I will share with you on this blog. This is still a newer blog so I'm still in the process of ensuring that you get only relevant information.

Music is my passion. This is where I will be starting in the next few days! I'm currently in the process of ensuring that the kind of information I want to share with makes sense. I will be starting with Music Theory and I expect that by the end of this course you should be able to read and write your own music. I will be providing you with all the tools you need to create your music. But please note that there is nothing that can replace talent. After completing the music Theory Course I will move to some Music Software. By the end of the lesson you should have completed at least two songs!

Then next will be Graphics, Animation, Sound Engineering, etc.

Lastly I will show you how to use ALL these techniques to create you own Movie.