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How to play Piano Voicings using Upper Structures. Introduction
Here’s the complete lesson in video format In this series we are going to talk about Piano Voicings, specifically voicings that use upper structures. It’s said that the average piano player spends 2 to 3 hours daily, searching for… Continue reading
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Politonus III: Ear Training for Scales & Modes
Politonus III is the 3rd volume in the Politonus Ear Training Series by mDecks Music. While Politonus I is a multi pitch ear training to help you develop tonal ear training (perfect and relative pitch) and Politonus II is dedicated to Intervals, Triads… Continue reading
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Politonus II: A different Ear Training app
Ear training is an essential skill for every musician. Being able to identify groups of notes as one sound-type is not only useful when listening but also when writing and composing music. There are three fundamental structures that we must be… Continue reading
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The Jazz Standards Progressions Book in 18 Volumes (PDF & Paperback)
Every Jazz Musician knows what a Fake-book is. We’ve all played songs based on lead-sheets, where the chords are just an approximation of what really is going on in the song’s progression. Although Jazz harmony is very similar to Traditional Tonal… Continue reading
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How to import any song into Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro Audio-Sync (even DRM protected files and Apple Music songs)
For some reason some songs in your iTunes library are DRM protected. If you enable the Kind column on your iTunes Library you see the file type for every song. In the example above Nimbus 2000 is a Protected AAC audio file. There’s… Continue reading
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Troubleshooting Audio Issues in See Music (sight-reading app)
See Music is a complex app that listens to you playing an instrument or singing and then gives you instant note-by-note feedback on your performance In order for See Music to work properly the audio inputs and outputs on your… Continue reading
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Example 2: Audio-Sync with multiple repetitions of the form
This is example 2 on how to sync an audio track to a progression in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro. In case you haven’t read the previous post, here’s a link: How to sync progressions to audio tracks in Mapping Tonal… Continue reading
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How to sync progressions to audio tracks in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro
Before you read this post please make sure you take a look at the previous post: Audio-Sync in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 7.5 In order to sync a progression in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro to an audio track you need… Continue reading
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Audio-Sync in Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 7.5
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 7.5 can now sync audio tracks with harmonic progressions. This new feature is great for developing a better understanding of tonal harmony while listening to real-life examples from the masters performed by great musicians. Troubleshooting… Continue reading
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Playing Scales vs. Playing Out of Scales
I’ve been asked many times “Why do I need to learn and practice scales?” or “Why do I need to understand chords-scales and tonal harmony?” Some other people complain about the chord-scale theory, saying that they don’t want to play… Continue reading
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