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• Unit 01 — The Twelve Notes, and Why They Repeat
• Unit 02 — Reading the Black Keys
• Unit 03 — Half Steps and Whole Steps
• Unit 04 — Pulse, Beat, and Measure
• Unit 05 — Note Values and Rests
• Unit 06 — Time Signatures, Ties, and Dots
• Unit 07 — The Staff as a Picture of the Keyboard
• Unit 08 — Treble, Bass, and the Grand Staff
• Unit 09 — Ledger Lines and Accidentals
• Unit 10 — Counting Letters, Not Half Steps
• Unit 11 — Seconds Through Octaves
• Unit 12 — Major, Minor, Perfect
• Unit 13 — W-W-H-W-W-W-H
• Unit 14 — Building It from Any Note
• Unit 15 — Scale Degrees and the Pull Home
• Unit 16 — Where Sharps and Flats Come From
• Unit 17 — The Order of Sharps and Flats, and Why
• Unit 18 — The Circle of Fifths — How It's Built
• Unit 19 — The Circle of Fifths — What You Do With It
• Unit 20 — Natural Minor and the Relative Major
• Unit 21 — Harmonic and Melodic Minor — Why They Exist
• Unit 22 — Hearing the Difference
• Unit 23 — Stacking Thirds
• Unit 24 — Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented
• Unit 25 — The Seven Chords That Live in a Key
• Unit 26 — Root Position, First, Second
• Unit 27 — Spotting an Inversion on the Page
• Unit 28 — Moving as Little as Possible
• Unit 29 — Why It Sounds Smoother
• Unit 30 — The Dominant Seventh — What It Does
• Unit 31 — The Other Families You'll Actually Meet
• Unit 32 — The Number System
• Unit 33 — Tonic, Predominant, Dominant
• Unit 34 — Progressions You Already Know by Ear
• Unit 35 — A Melody Over Your Chords
• Unit 36 — Transposing a Progression
• Unit 37 — Reading a Lead Sheet
• Unit 38 — Project 1 — Take a Song Apart
• Unit 39 — Project 2 — Harmonize a Melody
• Unit 40 — Project 3 — Write a Progression, Then Change One Thing