The Complete Japanese Music Theory Course → 2.1 Japanese Music Theory Basics

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Welcome!
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  Introduction
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Music Theory Basics
In this Chapter, we will be covering all the music basics from how to create chords and scales to progressions and harmonic functions. By the end, you will have a firm grasp of major and minor scales and chords, along with diminished and augmented, and how to arrange them to make simple songs.
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Japanese Music Theory Basics
In this section, we will be building off the last Chapter and learning more about extended chords and other special chords. We will also look more into how Japan uses these chords to make music that sounds foreign to a Westerners ear, yet makes perfect sense theory wise. There are no mysteries or magic here! Learn what they do so you can feel confident implementing these chords and techniques into your own music!
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Common Japanese Chord Progressions
In this Chapter, I will be giving 50, yes FIFTY chord progressions that you can start using right away in your own music. These all have audio clips that have been created by me so you can listen and figure out which ones you like the most!
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Japanese Song Structure
In this chapter, we'll learn how Japanese people organize their music and how they change things up. Not every song follows the simple verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus formula. You may be surprised at how they add additional sections and switch up the order to keep things fresh for their listeners while still telling a unique story with their music.
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Bonus Chords & Songwriting Tips
You pretty much have all you need to create Japanese inspired music, but there's always more to learn. I won't be teaching a whole lot here, but these are things I've noticed in a lot of Japanese songs that I think you can utilize. I've also found Youtubers that have lessons on chords and melodies for some of these topics :)
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Conclusion + Resources
This is the end of the course, but I still got additional resources and goodies for all my students <3
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The Complete Japanese Music Theory Course

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2.1 Japanese Music Theory Basics

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