silverstar

Mr. EC,

I thought that you might be able to help me with my question, which is pretty simple. I'm in a class called "Fundamentals of Music". We're basically going over all the basic stuff of music theory-starting out with "This is called a staff, it has five lines and four spaces". It's a good beginner class, and I thought it was pretty easy until about two weeks ago when we started to delve into the realm of intervals (and their major/minor/diminished/augmented counterparts), chords, triads, and seventh chords. I'm competely confused at this stage in my class...I do not like the professor or how he teaches the class (it seems like 3 hours of him standing in front of the class and going off on tangents...he doesn't stay on topic very well, and everything gets complicated).

Do you have any suggestions on how I should try to memorize things like intervals and, for example, what makes a minor third minor? Are there any self-teaching books or online resources that I could use to help me memorize things like that? I really want to learn music theory and understand it, but it's (pardon my expression please) kicking my butt.

Thank you for your help! I hope that this was easy enough to understand!
Lara

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