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So are we. We are DrMIDI.com. We have been teaching LEGITIMATE music since 1970, and would like to share music in a real life conversational setting. You may download any of the DrMIDI Video Music Lessons below for only $4.95-9.95 each. Choose the lesson you would like to download by clicking the appropriate lesson. You will receive a password upon payment. Credit card payment are accepted by PayPal. These video presentations were created with Quicktime video.

Free Quicktime software is available at Quicktime.com, or click above for QT Pro. Once you have completed the video series, you can continue your studies with live private lessons available through conference webcam video with one of our instructors.

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Lesson 3: Major Scales and Major Chords

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Lesson 3 is a download explaining the origins of major scales and chords. This lesson is perfectly suited for beginners or musicians who play by ear, and want to know more about what they are doing, and how to properly create chords. The video is about 15 minutes in length, and gives details about half and whole steps,
tetrachords and their formulas, the major scale formula, and the major chord. A logical explaination of major chord formation will allow all who view to become experts in major scales and chords. This lesson is applicable for all instrumentalists and vocalists.

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Lesson 4: 1950's Playing Style of Major Chords

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Lesson 4 is a fun, practical way of understanding and PLAYING major chords in a song. This 12 minute session is the first "hands on" piano lesson in the DrMIDI.com series, but although it is using the piano as the musical medium, the theory and chord creating technques are reinforced throughout the lesson making it a worthwhile video to view for all musicians. Lesson 4 covers right and left hand chords, Left hand boogie bass, timing, vocal accompianment techniques and performance tricks. Try is out...it's a lot of fun!

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Keyboard

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Lesson 1 is a FREE download to give you an idea of what to expect in the following lessons. The video is about 7 minutes in length, and gives details about each key of the piano. Several quick quizes are challenging and educational. You should know all of the piano keys by the end of the lesson. Click Here for additional help from musictheory.net

Lesson 2: Notes and Staves

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Lesson 2 is a download explaining the history and application of written music. This lesson is perfectly suited for beginners or musicians who play by ear, and want to know more about what they are doing, and how to write music notation. The video is about 12 minutes in length, and gives details about the grand staff, treble cleff, bass cleff, note values, note types, intervals, and musical alphabet. This lesson is applicable for all instrumentalists and vocalists.

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Lesson 5: Chord Formulas

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Lesson 5 is a download explaining the origins of 144+ chords. Formulas and insight on how to create chords allow you to throw away chord charts giving you more creative freedom. Learn how to quickly create major, minor, augmented, 7th, Maj7, Aug7, 6, m6, m7, dim7, 9, and variations without having to memorize each note. This lesson is perfectly suited for beginners or musicians who play by ear, and want to know more about what they are doing, and how to properly create chords. The video is about 15 minutes long, and applicable for all instrumentalists and vocalists.

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Lesson 6: Chord Inversions

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Lesson 6 is a download explaining chord inversions and their effect upon the melody of a song. Emphases is put into right hand melody with chordal accompaniment and creating chords by adding the notes of the chord below the melody. This lesson is perfectly suited for beginners or musicians who play by ear, and want to know more about what they are doing, and how to properly create chords. The video is about 15 minutes long, and applicable for all instrumentalists and vocalists.

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Lesson 7: Chord Substitutions 101

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Learn how to add more harmony into your arrangements by using the Circle of Fifths in a new way! The analogy of the english language is compared to musical language giving the student a better understanding of the phylosophy of how to use the dominant fifth chord as an adjective, helping describe the noun (target chord). This lesson is perfectly suited for musicians who play by ear, and want to know more about what they are doing, and how to enhabce their harmonic arrangements. The video is about 15 minutes long, and applicable for all instrumentalists and vocalists.