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. It's usually preceded by the V/IV, landing on the IV at the beginning of the... Continue Reading →
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 and their resolutions. However there isn't any symbol to show a Major 7th chord that... Continue Reading →
Check out our new post: Unlocking the Magic of Jobim's Harmony: A Step-by-Step Guide to 'The Girl From Ipanema' Jazz Harmony Lesson I found many discussions online regarding the harmonic analysis of Antonio Carlos Jobim's Girl From Ipanema. Here's my two cents. There is some confusion with the second chord in the A section and the... Continue Reading →
The Jazz Standards Progressions Book with 1000+ Jazz Progressions fully analyzed, with chord-scales and arrows brackets analysis is now available in PDF form for download on mDecks.com https://youtu.be/1pGYgk4rTxE Now you can play your favorite Jazz Standards from a new perspective. To learn more about it visit https://mdecks.com/jazzstandards.phtml
Here's a map with the complete set of functions in any key (major or minor), it also shows the common paths taken from one to another. created using Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro You can get the map in a beautiful canvas form 18x24 here: Tonal Harmony Map in Canvas Form
The Lydian dominant or Lydian b7 is the 4th mode of the melodic minor By turning the graph around the circle of fifths you get all the different modes Created using Tessitura Pro
Here’s the analysis created using Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro In F In C
mDecks Music Blog 