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 →
How did Beethoven write the opening for this first symphony in C major? Learn Beethoven's harmony and how tonality works.
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 →
In this new series we will explore the Harmony and Voicings of Pat Metheny applied to the piano. These are intermediate to advanced piano lessons. So, join us and learn more about the harmonic techniques used by Metheny. One of the most iconic guitar player and composer of our time. https://youtu.be/pZ364c7cdN8 We are back with... Continue Reading →
Learn how Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro works on iOS
mDecks Music's "Exclusive Access" YouTube Membership now offers a really cool deal: An ever-growing resource library of music theory content with plenty of music theory material to take your music knowledge to the next level, from Sheet Music • Worksheets • Summaries • Studies • Harmonic Analyses • Scales & Modes • Improvisation and much... Continue Reading →
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 and note count, source scales, symmetrical scales, and hexatonic bi-triadic scales. Each scale has its... Continue Reading →
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