Music Concepts Online: Chords:

The terms and concepts we will learn are:
  • chord, major chord, minor chord
  • root, third, fifth
  • root position, inversion
    A good place to start understanding chords is to look at these two online lectures:

    Exercises and Assignments:

  • Read pp. 154-156
  • Do the Computer Exercises # 118 and 119
  • Do the Written Exercises (# 1-4) on p. 157
  • Read pp. 174-176 in the textbook.
  • Do the Computer Exercise #140 (Triad Writing - Major & Minor Triads: Ch. 10) 3 
  • Do selected portions of the Written Exercises on pp. 176-177:
    Do Exercise 1, problems a,b,d,f, and g; do Exercise 2, problems a,b,d,f,and g; Do all of Exercises 3 and 4

    Guitar Chord Chart

    Want to learn simple and common chords on the guitar? Take a look at the MCO Chord Chart.

    Chord FAQS

    To make sure what types of chords we will learn about (we won't be able to learn about them all in this course), see Chord FAQS.

    Online Chord Quiz

  • Do the Online Chord Quiz on the MCO Blackboard

    The Chord QuiZZle

  • You can have some fun and earn extra credit by taking the Chord QuiZZle. Information may be found at the MCO QuiZZles Page.
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