As a beginner composer with little experience, I have found the need to provide myself with copious notes in order to build that retention that encourages facile and ease of use of different techniques and information.
As I age, I find it harder to remember things that as a young man would have become embedded in my mind with ease.
In a desire to minimize this issue I have begun to create myself some simple reference sheets containing the information that I find myself using regularly. I will use these as aide de memoirs to have the information I need close at hand.
They are relatively simple, and at present wholly incomplete, but I think that they will be useful for me in the future,
As a brief example here is a table that I set up with the diatonic triads and the individual chord tones that comprise those triads. I have done this for all of the major keys and will look to expand them further for the different minor keys, and also look at the seventh chords and altered chords.
Here is an example of what I have for the diatonic triads in C Major.
I am hoping these sheets will provide a means to help me to further embed this knowledge into my mind so that I can recall things more easily.
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