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Improvisation & Scales

  • Learn These 20 Piano Tricks To Sound Like A Pro

    Wouldn’t it be nice to just sit at the piano and play for hours on end improvising beautiful music in different styles and moods? Here’s a list of 20 piano tricks that will change the way you play piano for… Read article →

    Learn These 20 Piano Tricks To Sound Like A Pro

  • The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales by mDecks Music

    The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales is a fully interactive PDF containing all 2048 scales in music, organized over the circle of fifths, with 2600+ pages of information. The encyclopedia includes chapters on scale theory, several master indexes by mode count… Read article →

    The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales by mDecks Music

  • Target Notes Practice for Improvisation & Ear Training

    One of the best ear training exercises you can do to learn jazz standards and improvisation is Target Notes. Imagine this melodic line over the progression: We could use our classification method to classify each note against their respective chord. But this would be a… Read article →

    Target Notes Practice for Improvisation & Ear Training

  • Upper Structures over complete Jazz Standards Progressions

    There are many ways to expand and develop a chord-voicings vocabulary. A standard approach is to stack simple structures (triads, quartals, dyads) on top of other simple ones, thus creating a richer color palette for your voicings. These structures are… Read article →

    Upper Structures over complete Jazz Standards Progressions

  • Two amazing Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro ADD-ONS

    Starting on version 7.8.8, Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro macOS now offers two incredible and unprecedented add-ons: Upper Structures  & Target Notes     These are two powerful features to study and practice tonal harmony. View Mapping Tonal Harmony’s webpage The new add-ones… Read article →

    Two amazing Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro ADD-ONS

  • Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 7 for iOS iPad & iPhone (Manual)

    What’s new in version 7.8.8 (soon to be available) The new version 7.8.8 (already waiting for review on the App Store) will offer four AMAZING ADD-ONS: 1000+ Jazz Standard Progressions Bird Bebop Progressions Upper Structures Target Notes Now you can import… Read article →

    Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 7 for iOS iPad & iPhone (Manual)

  • The Bird Bebop Progressions Book in PDF format

    After The Jazz Standard Progressions Book series was published it was only natural to take a closer look at the harmonic vocabulary used in Bebop repertoire.   In the mid-1940s Bebop musicians revolutionized jazz with the use of complex harmonies,… Read article →

    The Bird Bebop Progressions Book in PDF format