Apps & Tools
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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… Read article →
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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… Read article →
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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… Read article →
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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… Read article →
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Lush Life – Full Harmonic Analysis
Here’s a song by Billy Strayhorn that I’ve always loved and never fully analyzed until writing The Jazz Standards Progressions Book. I’ve been fascinated by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn compositions since the first time I heard an Ellington album,… Read article →
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Can We Have a IVmaj7 Chord With an Ionian Chord-Scale?
Here’s a musical concept nobody taught me at school. While analyzing 1000+ jazz tunes for The Jazz Standards Progressions Book, I noticed a great number of songs in major keys tonicize the IV degree at the beginning of the bridge.… Read article →
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A New Symbol in Harmonic Analysis
In the process of writing The Jazz Standards Progressions Book Series I realized the need to express a very common harmonic event with a new symbol. So far we had solid and dotted arrows and brackets to express II-V relationships… Read article →






