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  • Introduction to using mCircle

    This is an introduction to the free online software (javascript app) from mDecks: mCircle located at http://www.mdecks.com/graphs/mcircle.php mCircle was created by Ariel J Ramos using his Decoding the Circle of Vths (fifths) method to analyze and study musical structures and subsets… Continue reading

  • Decoding the Circle of Fifths Chart description

    The “Decoding The Circle of Vths” Chart is laid out as a poster sized page of 18 x 24. In high resolution PDF format. The chart is organized in six sections: The Circle and the Mode/Transposition Formula Symmetry and Inversions… Continue reading

  • Learn Music, Challenge your Mind

    For the human brain, Music is the ultimate challenge. Music is a language where all concepts and thoughts are abstract, where semantics can be re-formulated in each work and statements are made, using an external device (musical instrument), embedded in… Continue reading

  • Reconstructing Beethoven’s Für Elise 25 Studies on Beethoven’s Bagatelle in A minor. mDecks Focus SeriesNew List Price: $15.95also available at Also Available at amazon.com Learn or Teach how to play Fur Elise in 25 easy studies. Für Elise, one of… Continue reading

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  • Every time you hear or play a note you need to know/feel where that pitch lies relatively to the current key/mode or pole to understand what’s going on and where it wants to go next. I teach all my students… Continue reading

  • Major Pentatonic in Melodic Minor

    Is there a major pentatonic that can be used in Melodic Minor? Using mCircle software: enter Melodic Minor as Main Structure and Major Pentatonic in Sub-Structure Answer: Yes, and it is on the IV degree of the Melodic Minor. Continue reading

  • How to remove duplicates from your iTunes Library

    If you have thousands of songs, you probably have lots of duplicate tracks in your iTunes library.You might wonder… how did that happend?Well… may be you’ve imported the same CD twice, or you converted some files from aiff into mp3… Continue reading

  • Upper Structures…. Triads?

    If you’ve never heard the term UST (upper strucure triads) you probably wouldn’t want to read this piece unless your current playing/reading level is intermediate to advanced, in which case: you should read it. USTs is a great device for… Continue reading

  • Music = B ( Repetition vs. Variation, Culture)

    Music is a language where all concepts and thoughts are abstract, where semantics can be re-formulated in each work and statements are made, (using an external device, aka “musical instrument”), embedded in an imaginary grid of Time. This environment of… Continue reading