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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. Upper Structure For Piano Voicings & Improvisation Vol.2 QUARTALS Quartals are very effective when used as upper structures, and offer sounds which are not obtained when using upper structure triads. In this... Continue Reading →
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 through when we create an analysis of a jazz standard. https://youtu.be/1-1rfLAufvI The harmonic progression in... Continue Reading →
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. https://youtu.be/fMTXsD5-e9I 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. https://youtu.be/09Kx9rGpJDM Harmony of Beethoven. Beethoven’s Killer Opening in Symphony No.1 in C Major Tonal harmony & harmony functions The A theme... Continue Reading →
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! https://youtu.be/HJCXPUx5_Tw In the video Wooten asks the audience this: "…okay, how many keys are there? I say it's 12. Good answer, but wrong. How many how many keys you're about to say? 12 right? that was my answer.... Continue Reading →
Harmony of Beethoven. Beethoven’s Killer Opening in Symphony No.1 in C Major
How did Beethoven write the opening for this first symphony in C major? Learn Beethoven's harmony and how tonality works.
How to use the Circle of Fifths for Scales & Modes
Introduction The Circle of Fifths is one of the most powerful tools we half to represent our 12-tone system. By stacking perfect fifths you get all the notes in western music. Using the circle of fifths to show scales allows us to find very interesting properties of that scale, from determining key signatures, to finding... Continue Reading →
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