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Composition & Improvisation: Case Study: Part 4 of 24: Harmonic Analysis

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The importance of deep harmonic comprehension and ear training cannot be overstated…

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2011-06-29 Composition & Improvisation, Music Theory

Transposition: The Musical Way to Transpose Harmony

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A prerequisite to Transposing Harmony like a musician is to conceive and hear the music in functional musical terms, not just as an arbitrary sequence of dots…

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2011-05-01 Chord Progressions, Transposition

Chords: Consonance & Dissonance

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Consonance is the state of harmony that sound-feels stable, settled, resolved, and free of tension…

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2011-03-01 Chords

Chords: Melody & Harmony

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Here are three famous musical examples that illustrate that melody is harmony and harmony is melody…. and that scales and chords are really two complementary views of the same musical stuff…

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2011-03-01 Chords

Chords

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Here we are going to learn how to think about, hear, see, feel, study, and practice Chords like a real musician!

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2011-03-01 Chords, Music Theory

The Physics of Sound: The Physical Basis of Harmony

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Did you know that harmony is based on the organic ways that physical objects naturally vibrate?

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2010-08-06 Music Theory, Physics of Sound
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