A rich collection of lessons that teach you how to hear, think about, see, feel, study, and practice Chords and Chord Progressions like a real musician…
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Prerequisites
Basic music reading… the LOVE of music… and the discipline to study and practice.
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Why Study Chords and Chord Progressions?
The study of Chords and Chord Progressions, done right, is essential to understanding how an enormous amount of music works. Studying and practicing chords like a musician–using all four of your musical intelligences–ears, intellect, eyes, and muscles–…
- Prepares you to recognize chords when you hear them.
- Prepares you to recognize chords when you see them in written music.
- Elevates your music reading from “painting-by-number” to deep understanding.
- Enables you to internalize music based on meaningful patterns, not brute force note by note memorization.
- Deepens your visuospatial awareness of the keyboard.
- Develops your piano technique.
- Expands your ability to play by ear.
- Broadens your chord vocabulary for composition and improvisation.
- Enables you to transpose like a pro.
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Fundamental of Harmony
Consonance & Dissonance
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Chord Voicing
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Chord Inversion
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Voice Leading
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Chord Structure
Chord Function & Roman Numeral Analysis
Chord Types
Intervals
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Triads
Major Triad
Minor Triad
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Sus Chords
Note: Although sometimes used as a harmonic entity in themselves, suspensions are best understood by including their resolutions, as follows…
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Add2 Chords / Appoggiaturas
7th Chords
Major 7th Chord
Dominant 7th Chord
Minor 7th Chord
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Diminished 7th Chord
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Half-Diminished 7th Chord
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Power Chords
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Harmonic Devices
Pedal Point
Borrowed Chords
Static Harmony, Descending Bass
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Diatonic Triads, All Major Keys
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Diatonic Triads, All Minor Keys
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Commonly-Used Chord Progressions
Major 1 5 1 Chord Progression
Minor 1 5 1 Chord Progression
Secondary Dominants
Minor 4 Chord in a Major Key
Any interest in also learning about Secondary Dominant Diminished Chords?
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How to Transpose Music
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