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Are You Ready for Basic Training?
Howcast - Learn if you're ready for basic training with the quiz in this US army basic training video from Howcast with Sergeant Michael Volkin.
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2 Bike Race Climbing Strategies
Howcast - Learn two bike race climbing strategies from racer Alexander Barouh in this Howcast road cycling video.
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US Pilot Flies Massive Plane Super Low Over Silent Drill Platoon
Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel, where today we show you what it takes to be a member of famous aerial demonstration teams like the Blue Angels. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel dedicated to sea geeks. Whenever you are...
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Reading 'The Twisted Tree': introducing the setting
Pupil outcome: I can identify and use pathetic fallacy to describe a setting and create a specific atmosphere. Key learning points: - Mormor's cabin is very isolated and the surrounding forest is dark. - A strange boy is living in the...
Music Matters
Is VI-I a Good Chord Progression? - Music Composition
Harmony text books often advise us to avoid using this particular chord progression. Why is that? This music composition lesson explains how this chord progression can create difficulties in the part writing with consecutive / parallel...
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Writing a Melody Using 3 Components - Music Composition
We examine the first melodic idea that appears in the Overture of Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutti’ and analyze the three components of the phrase, showing the characteristics of each, how they contrast and how they fit together to provide...
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The CISO Masterclass - Why Do We Need a Cybersecurity Strategy
In this video, you will understand the importance of having a well-defined cybersecurity strategy and how it aligns with organizational goals and risk mitigation.
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ChatGPT and DALL-E: Sell Your Creative Thinking with AI - ChatGPT Demo (Optional)
In this video, we will provide a demo of ChatGPT, a deep learning model used for generating human-like text. This video is optional for those who are already familiar with ChatGPT.
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Which Chords Can You Borrow? - Music Composition
Learn about the most commonly used borrowed chords and chromatically altered chords. Many composers and arrangers find themselves limited to diatonic chords and lack the confidence to use borrowed and chromatically altered chords. Yet...
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How Schubert Creates Emotion - Composer Insights
We examine the opening section of Schubert’s famous Impromptu in Gb in order to discover how Schubert creates emotion. Starting with the melodic line we discover how the contour works and how the phrase design enhances the rises and...
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Extreme Modulation Using Chromatic Harmony - Music Theory
Harmonizing a melody using chromatic chords and advanced harmonic techniques to effect modulation to extreme keys. The melody to be harmonized includes an extreme modulation from Eb to B major before travelling back to Eb major. This...
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Minor Key Harmony - Music Theory
Minor key harmony can be very complicated. Many people are reasonably happy about choosing chords to harmonize a melody in a major key but minor keys present particular challenges, especially when trying to figure out your way around the...
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The Best Chords to Follow Chord III (in Minor Keys) - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord III what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...
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Choosing the Right Chords in Minor Keys - Music Composition
How do we go about choosing chords and how can you be sure if you've got the right for a given situation? A lot of people are happier doing this in major keys than they are in minor keys so in this music composition lesson we're going to...
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Chromatic Chord Alterations - Music Composition
Improve your music writing and harmony with these three chromatic chord alteration tricks. Many composers, arrangers, and improvisers get fed up with being stuck using the same basic chords all the time. This music composition lesson...
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Writing & Developing a Melody Line - Music Composition
How to develop a melodic idea and write more interesting music. You may have some good melodic ideas but you’re not sure how to develop them or you may be preparing for a music theory exam in which you need to extend a given opening into...
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Music Theory - The Imperfect Music Cadence
The Music Theory Crash Course continues with our look at cadences. This time we break down the Imperfect Authentic Cadence. We look at some cadence examples on the piano and explain how to identify an Imperfect Authentic Cadence as well...
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The Best Chords to Follow Chord One - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? When you're writing a chord progression it often makes sense to start with chord one but which chords could you use next? This music composition lesson gives you thirteen...
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The Best Chords to Follow Chord IV (in Minor Keys) - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord IV what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...
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The Best Chords to Follow Chord IV (in Major Keys) - Music Composition
Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord IV what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...
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Using 6-4 5-3 Chord Progressions - Music Composition
Teaching you the best ways to deal with second inversion chords. The second inversion chord is explained along with its unstable characteristics and the video goes on to illustrate the most convincing musical contexts for using the chord...
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Music Theory - The "Amen" Chords - What Is A Plagal Cadence?
The plagal cadence, also sometimes called the "amen" cadence. In this video we look at examples of the plagal cadence, how it is used in music, and what it sounds like by listening to some examples. This continues our look into music...
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How Edvard Grieg Builds Character - Composer Insights
How Grieg builds musical character in “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen”, number 6 of his op.65 Lyric Pieces written in celebration of his own 25th wedding anniversary. The celebratory character is explored through the tonality, the...
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A Beginner's Guide to Four-Part Harmony - Music Theory
Beginner's guide to four-part harmony. This music theory lesson explains the basics of how to write four-part harmony to fit with a given melody. Often people can write a tune they are happy with but they are not sure which chords to use...