Punkademic Music Theory Comprehensive Complete: Part 4, 5, & 6 (Last updated 3 2025) [TUTORiAL]

Welcome to the COMPLETE Music Theory Guide!

This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take music theory (or music interest) and turn it into a usable skill. Whether you are an active musician or an aspiring musician, this class is perfect for you.

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making for Udemy use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier.

My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.

Dr. Allen is a professional musician, top-rated Udemy instructor, and university professor. In 2017 the Star Tribune featured him as a "Mover and a Shaker," and he is recognized by the Grammy Foundation for his music education classes.

This class is a Comprehensive class - it will have many parts, going through my entire annual curriculum.

MUSIC THEORY COMPREHENSIVE COMBINED: PARTS, 4, 5, AND 6 is three courses in one: It includes my three top Music Theory Comprehensive courses: Part 4: Modes & Counterpoint, Part 5: Counterpoint Complete, and Part 6: SATB Composition.

In this class, we will cover:

• My approach to Music Theory
• Tools you will need to learn Music Theory quickly and efficiently
• How Modes Work
• The History of Modes
• Identifying the Musical Modes
• Incorporating modes into popular music
• Analysis of popular and classical music, including the Simpsons TV Theme Song, and the Beetles.
• Interval Exploration
• Compound Intervals
• Rules for Inversion
• Augmented Intervals
• Diminished Intervals
• Enharmonic Equivalence
• Labeling Dissonance
• Counterpoint in Species
• The Rules of Counterpoint
• Compositing with Counterpoint
• Types of Contrapuntal Motion
• Creating music with Counterpoint
• Tools of Counterpoint
• Second Species Counterpoint
• Metric Accents and Diminutions
• Resolutions
• Passing Tones
• Consonant Skips and Leaps
• Neighbor Tones
• Writing Compelling Melodies
• Third Species Counterpoint
• The Cambiata
• Double Neighbor Tones
• Fourth Species Counterpoint
• Rhythmic Displacement
• Suspensions
• 4-3, 7-6, and 9-8 Suspension Types
• Consonant Suspensions
• Chains of Suspensions
• Fifth Species Counterpoint
• Free Counterpoint
• My approach to Music Theory
• Tools of Counterpoint
• Types of Motion in Counterpoint
• 18th Century Counterpoint
• Chordal Dissonance
• Cadences in Bass/Melody Accompaniment
• Cadences in 4-Voice Accompaniment
• Non-Chord Tones in 4-Voice Accompaniment
• Suspensions in 4-Voice Accompaniment
• Example Analysis Projects
• Writing 4-Voice (SATB) Lines
• SATB Notation
• SATB Ranges
• Voice Crossings
• Doubling
• T-D-T Phrasing
• Establishing Tonic Areas
• Establishing Dominant Areas
• Resolving Leading Tones (in 4-Voice Accompaniment)
• Harmonic Rhythm
• Texture (in Song)
• Worksheets and Music for Practice

and much, much more!

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