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A master study guide of various concepts on the CBMT exam--all notes made in 2025.

A study guide of various music theory concepts to study for the CBMT exam. Includes information on cadences, scale degree names, scales, the 12-bar blues progression, modes, various rhythmic patterns, chord inversions, secondary dominants, and instrument transpositions.

A list of helpful acronyms to memorize for the CBMT exam.

Notes on various disorders and disabilities that may appear on the CBMT exam. Includes definitions and important characteristics of physical, intellectual, age-related, mental, and speech disorders.

Notes providing the different stages of child development and how children through the stages react to music for studying for the CBMT exam.

This document provides the 3 levels of music therapy and the many different therapeutic approaches for your use studying for the CBMT exam.

Exercises for increasing familiarity in the pentatonic box shapes from AppliedGuitarT.

I made this cheat sheet of different alternate tunings and what genres they might be seen in for guitar.

This document contains the fingerpicking exercises from AppliedGuitarT, to improve technique, as well as a guide for understanding the letters notated in tablature indicating what fingers to use on the strings.

Notes from the course SPNH 420: Introduction to Translation at Eastern Michigan University--based off the text "Manual of Spanish-English Translation" by Washbourne.

These notes cover the third week of SPNH 420: Introduction to Translation course at Eastern Michigan University. The third week covers chapter 3 of Washbourne's Manual of Spanish-English Translation. These notes will cover tools for connecting texts, such as: use of a dictionary, collocations, synonyms, and more. The notes utilize mostly Spanish, but switch to English here and there. This is exactly how the professor will show it on her slides, but will only teach it verbally in Spanish.

This is the second part of the notes from week 2 of the SPNH 420: Introduction to Translation course at Eastern Michigan University. The second week covers chapter 2 of Washbourne's Manual of Spanish-English Translation. These notes in particular focus on the different types of translation, different linguistic strategies such as connotation or denotation, use of a dictionary and what to be made aware of, and cognates. The notes utilize mostly Spanish, but switch to English here and there. This...

These notes cover part of the second week of SPNH 420: Introduction to Translation course at Eastern Michigan University. The second week covers chapter 2 of Washbourne's Manual of Spanish-English Translation. These notes specifically focus on the present tense and using diminutives, and how that compares to English. The notes utilize mostly Spanish, but switch to English here and there. This is exactly how the professor will show it on her slides, but will only teach it verbally in Spanish.

These notes cover the first week of the SPNH 420: Introduction to Translation course at Eastern Michigan University. The first week covers chapter 1 of Washbourne's Manual of Spanish-English Translation. The notes utilize mostly Spanish, but switch to English here and there. This is exactly how the professor will show it on her slides, but will only teach it verbally in Spanish.

These notes are on Chapter 5 of Wheeler and Murphy's "An Introduction to Music Therapy Research". Chapter 5 focuses on ethical thinking in music therapy research. Murphy, K. (2016) Chapter 5: Ethical Thinking in Music Therapy Research. In B. Wheeler & K. Murphy (Eds.), An Introduction to Music Therapy Research (3rd ed.). Barcelona Publishers.

These notes are on Chapter 4 of Wheeler and Murphy's "An Introduction to Music Therapy Research". Chapter 4 focuses on the process of reviewing literature while forming a research proposal. Abbott, E. (2016). Chapter 4: Reviewing the Literature. In B. Wheeler & K. Murphy (Eds.), An Introduction to Music Therapy Research (3rd ed.). Barcelona Publishers.

Everything you need to survive the Music Therapy Research course.

These notes cover many of the chapters of the text "An Introduction to Music Therapy Research". These are all the notes from the textbook that you will need for the Music Therapy Research class at Eastern Michigan University, but I will be adding notes for the rest of the chapters soon.

These notes are on many important research terminology concepts, giving definitions of each.

A recap on how to develop a good research question and delimiting, as well as some examples of some for objectivist and interpretivist studies.