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Music Theory that isn’t boring – Lightnote Premium Course How Music Works Interactive Music Theory Lessons Why learn basic music theory? Do you want to be able to make your own music, build your own chord progressions, or even improvise your own melodies? Do you want to skip all the jargon and complicated symbols? With Lightnote, you’ll learn basic music theory the simple way with bite-sized lessons, no confusing notation, and no instruments required! 1 Sound. What is it? A sound is a wave. Every sound is created from vibrations in the air. It can be louder… Increasing the height of the wave, or amplitude. …or more quiet. Decreasing the height of the wave, or amplitude. It can be lower in pitch… Lower notes will become longer waves. …or higher. And higher pitched notes will be more compressed. There are infinitely many notes. Not just the ones you know, like A through G, but everything in between. So how do we pick which notes to use? soft loud low pitch high pitch click me! 2 Harmony Notes that sound good together. What makes this sound good? Play …and this sound bad? Play A simple ratio between the notes means they sound nice together. Can you see the repeating pattern in the first one? Your ears can hear the simple ratio between these waves. It turns out that when the waves line up in nice patterns, it sounds good!!! Our ears like it when the ratio between the waves are simple. For example, three waves of note #1 for every two waves of note #2…