Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 12 - Secondary Dominants

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier.

Recently I was named as a semi-finalist for the Grammy Foundation's Music Educator of the Year award because of my in-person university classes. Now I'm taking those classes online in a new format in order to reach more students, and give them the joy of Music Theory.

My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own.

This class is a Comprehensive class - it will have many parts, going through my entire annual curriculum.

This class is Part 12: Sequences and Secondary Dominants. It finishes what would be the second semester of a college music theory class (according to the typical American academic system for learning music theory).

Throughout this class, If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I'll back to it as fast as possible.

In this class, we will cover:
Analyzing Bach
Identifying Sequences
Melodic Sequences
Harmonic Sequences
Diatonic and Chromatic Sequences
The Descending Fifth Sequence
Alternating Inversions in Sequences
Ascending Fifth Sequences
Descending Third Sequences
Secondary Dominants
Chromatic Chords
Tonicization and Modulation
Secondary Leading Tone Chords
Leading Tones To Five
Tonicizing Other Scale Degrees
Leading Tone of Anything
Analyzing Beethoven
Resolving Secondary Dominants
Embellished Resolutions
Irregular Resolutions
…and much, much more!