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How to spot and label Secondary Dominants. Music Theory / Tonal Harmony Lesson
If you’re taking a harmony course, you’ve certainly come across the concept of secondary dominants and endless exercises, where you’re given a piece of sheet music in which you have to label all the secondary dominants. Well, today I’m going… Continue reading
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How To Open & Play iReal Pro Songs In Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 9 (MUSIC-XML)
The ability to import iReal Pro songs into Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro is a long-awaited feature. Let’s be honest, while iReal Pro is pretty much a standard in the world of backing track apps, Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro backing tracks… Continue reading
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Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 10 User Manual MacOS Version
Click here for version 9 for iOS What’s new in version 10 for macOS Index The concept behind Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro The Map Interacting with the map Map Settings & Preferences The Staff Panel The Staff Menu Main Split… Continue reading
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Are you Ready for Upper Structure Quartals? Take this Quiz to find out.
The Upper Structures Piano Voicings & Improvisation Vol.2 course is dedicated to the use of quartals as upper structures over jazz standards chord. Quartals are very effective when used as upper structures, and offer sounds which are not obtained when… Continue reading
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Are You Ready For Upper Structure Triads? Take this Quiz to find out.
For a piano player, knowing how to voice chords is an essential skill, not only forcomping (accompanying or laying the chord progression for others player toimprovise over), but also to use those voicings as an improvisational aid. Allpiano players get… Continue reading
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How to use the Modes of The Harmonic Minor Scale
Introduction The harmonic minor is one of the three main source scales in music. This is a seven note minor scale with a b3, a b6 and a natural 7th. The related modes group from this scale offer quite a few… Continue reading
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How to Analyze Jazz Standards. The Berklee Method – mDecks Music
Let me show how to analyze the jazz standard Recorda-Me. You can find the final analysis, along with 1300+ other jazz standards fully analyzed in The Jazz Standards Progressions Book by mDecks Music I’ll show you the process we go… Continue reading
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How Did Beethoven Write Music? Symphony No.1 Theme A (Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro)
Let’s look at the A theme in Beethoven’s first symphony. We’ve already talked about his incredible opening, and how he used a secondary dominant in the subdominant region, breaking with all of the norms. Tonal harmony & harmony functions The… Continue reading
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Is Victor Wooten right? Music Theory is SIMPLE!
I want to talk about a very interesting video by Victor Wooten called: Music theory is Simple! In the video Wooten asks the audience this: “…okay, how many keys are there? I say it’s 12. Good answer, but wrong. How… Continue reading
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