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Music theory for complete beginners (Udemy.com)

The fundamentals of sound in time, learn how to teach yourself to read, write basic rhythms and the skill to play them

4.4
441 reviews

Created by: Miguel Fajardo

Last updated April 2020

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What you will learn

  • Read basic rhythms in any kind of instrument
  • Write durations of sound by ear
  • Understand the most important fundamentals of music: Beat, Tempo, Bars, Time Signatures etc
  • Understand rhythmic values of Whole, half, quarter, eights and sixteenth notes
  • Understand and apply rhythmical concepts of ties and dotted notes
  • Understand and apply the concepts of accentuated notes, syncopation, and off beat notes

How it compares

Against the other 270 rated Udemy courses in Music on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 14% of them
  • Reviews441#78 of 271 by number of reviews
  • Length1.9 hoursshorter than 74% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2020earlier than 80% of them

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Course Description

This course is about understanding the very basis of music: sound. More precisely of sound in time. No matter what kind of instrument or musical endeavor you're interested, the most fundamental concepts are always the basics of sound in time, the rhythm.

We take an approach to study the basics of music in a way everyone can learn with no past musical experience whatsoever.

It is directed toward people who wants to learn music by themselves.

We include tutorials, exercises, and dictations as our main way to understand and practice the concepts.

Our approach is 100% practical, you should be making some rhythms from the very beginning, and have some solid skills by the end of the course.

Is very important to take a course like this before trying to learn any instrument, or try to compose, because, you need a solid foundation that sometimes teachers don't have the time to share.

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Instructor Details

Miguel Fajardo

I'm a multi instrumentalist musician, producer and composer, better know for my work on violin. Classically trained, and more than 20 years of experience. A popular musician by heart always connected to what people are listening, and the folk local and world music.

I have played in the Symphony Orchestra, as a jazz violinist in many bands, has recorded 8 albums. I have 2 Udemy courses with more than 8,000 students. As a composer, my "hit" has been "Estrellitas de Esperanza" a Violin duet I recorded with renowned violinist Karen Bentley. And as a producer, the arrangement and production of "Oblivion" by Astor Piazzolla along with great clarinetist Ranita de Santos, has more than 100,000 reproductions only on Spotify.

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By Josh Wille on 9/21/2022

Not a good match as I studied a musical instrument for 5 years in high school. If taken from a beginners perspective, it was good.

By Caroline Barker on 5/24/2020

I have been doing music theory for a while and I did two years of piano but I never really understood it so this is very quick and easy but I love it.

By Fahad Al-Mutlaq on 4/6/2020

It is exactly what I needed! I have been searching for a course that teach me exactly from scratch. but unfortunately, every course I find, assumes I have some knowledge of Music which I don't. This course really felt it was made just for me. Thank you for this!

By Anonymized User on 3/23/2020

Like the very basic style. The hand drawn examples are crude, but it's perfect for helping me see the very basic concept behind all the symbols. Awesome!

By Kayleigh Clark on 9/28/2019

Really enjoying this course it is giving me all the right points of what I was wanting out of it. The tutor is great and really knows how to make you feel welcome.

By Anonymized User on 8/24/2019

Sometimes the pronunciation of certain words is hard to understand. Also I noticed a couple spelling mistakes like 'group' which annoys me. Otherwise it’s easy enough to learn from and the exercises are good to have a go at, course achieves what it's set out to do

By Jack Taylor on 9/5/2017

I have been singing and playing lead or rhythm guitar for 50 + years by ear only. I don't know if my rating means anything. I got fed up with not knowing what I'm playing, figured the way to learn theory was start at the very beginning. I think this course would give a person who knew nothing at all about music a good start to build upon. Which is what I am doing now that I should have done when starting out but I was too young and stupid.

By Karl Wurdinger on 2/18/2017

Great course for beginners. Easy to understand the information and very useful for all musicians. This basic course should be followed by all students in order to understand their instrument or voice.

By Keshava Ramachandra on 11/10/2016

I was searching for a while for an easily understandable tutorial to learn about the music notations. It is very well explained & easy to understand for any novice.

By ANASTASSIYA KOZINA on 8/26/2016

I liiikeddddd the course!!!! What I am doing so far, beside music theory understanding, is learning music terminology in English as a non-native speaker. Thaaaank you for the course! Brilliant!

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