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March 20, 2022

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

March 12, 2022

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

March 9, 2022

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

March 6, 2022

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