Level 4

We pursue our discussion of intervals by looking at complementary intervals.

Until now, we've only ever written ascending intervals (intervals that go up). To write descending intervals, we can use our knowledge of complementary intervals.

In Level 3, we learned about transposing melodies by an octave. In this video, we talk about transposing a melody within the octave by a certain distance.

What if our melody has accidentals? Well, these must be carefully considered -- something we address in this video!

We discuss two new types of chords in this video - augmented and diminished triads.

Let's put our knowledge of chords together and practice tackling chord-related questions!

We continue our discussion of harmony by looking at the diatonic chords of the major scale.

Minor scales also have diatonic chords. We look at the example of the harmonic minor scale here.

Triads can exist in different positions. We look at these different positions, known as inversions, in this video.

In this video, we apply our knowledge of chords and scales to learn about cadences. We practice identifying Perfect Authentic and Plagal Cadences.

This video explains how to write Perfect Authentic and Plagal Cadences.

What if we come across a piece with only accidentals? This video provides some strategies on identifying its key, even if no key signature is present.