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Resources for the Local Church Musician

Biblical Music Philosophy Classes

Composer, Arranger, and Pastor Tim Kelly has offered the following seminar videos for free:

Music and Emotions: Ephesians 5

7 Evidences for Godly Music: Foundational Verses; Testimonials of Unstable Music; Character Traits of God vs. the World; The History of Music; Music Laws for Stable Music; Emotional Definition

Singing School

Shenandoah Christian Music Camp (Anabaptist)

Shaped Note solfege hymn singing school

Conservative Mennonites continue the historical Christian heritage of choral hymn singing, educating youth in the principles of sight reading, shaped notes, harmony, and reverence in worship.

Hymnbooks 

The new hymnbook Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs is published by Melody Publications. 

Music Theory Lessons

We are asked all the time: "What music theory course do you recommend?"  While the search for the ideal music theory course continues, in the meantime, here is a direct link to the YouTube videos of Christopher Brellochs.  He is not affiliated with Kardia Music in any way. The information about the structural laws of music contained in these free classes is useful for any composer, arranger, church musician, and song leader.  

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  • Explanation of some key aspects of the circle of fifths.​

  • Major scales

  • Minor scales (natural, harmonic, melodic)

  • Minor scales using a key signature

  • Intervals

  •  Inversion of Intervals

  • Consonant and Dissonant Harmonic Intervals - (with brief discussion of the overtone series, timbre, and how emotion is created in music)

  • Writing intervals below a given pitch

  • Writing intervals above a given pitch

  • Identifying a given interval  

  • Scale review 

  • Rhythm, beat, tempo

  • Note Values and Rests

  • Dotted Notes and Ties

  • Triplets

  • Meter

  • Simple vs. Compound Meter and Time Signatures

  • ​Relationship of Meter to Beat 

  • Division of the Beat

  • Time Signature

  • Renotating from one time signature to another

  • How to fill in an incomplete measure with rests  

  • Identifying the best time signature for an example

Free Downloads

Choral Conducting/Song Leading Lessons

Choral Conducting Lessons/ Songleading Lessons, with accompanying worksheets , prepared by Max Taylor: "Choral Conducting Crash Course"

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