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In this section of the course, we're going to be looking at the very building blocks of music, rhythm. We'll cover the different types of notes and their time values, how to draw them and other things like beaming.

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Next, we're going to be looking at another very important part of music which is time signatures. We'll take a look at bars and barlines as well as three types of time signatures and what they mean.

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Now we get to the stave or staff. This is where we write notes and some of the rules and conventions for notating music.

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In section four we're going to be looking at pitch, what it is and how to read and write different pitched notes. This is a very key part of not only learning music theory but also being able to read music for your instrument.

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Now that we know a bit more about rhythm and pitch we're going to jump back to some other time values like rests, tied notes and dotted notes.

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Along with pitch and rhythm, harmony is one of the big pillars of music theory. In this section, we're going to be covering a lot like intervals, scales, chords, and keys.

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Reading music can be difficult and so to help musicians be able to read easily there are some rules and conventions that we stick to. In this section we're going to be looking at some of the basic rules for grouping notes and rests in different time signatures.

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And lastly, we're going to take a look at performance directions. This is all about 'how' we play the music so we'll learn about dynamics, tempo and some other direcitons like articulation and more.

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