In order to play like an artist, one needs to deeply appreciate both the utility and limitations of Music Theory…
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One way to expand the harmonic possibilities of a chord progression beyond diatonic triads is to “borrow” chords from a parallel scale (a scale that has the same key center)…
Studying Chord Progressions is essential to understanding how an enormous amount of music works…
Mastering the Major Scale is absolutely essential for your development as a musician for at least two reasons…
Did you know… that a scale is so much more than a string of notes that go up and down in “steps”?
Now that we know a little bit about Solfege, let’s use it to analyze and sing some familiar melodies…
Welcome to your first lesson in conceiving and perceiving melody like a real musician…
Did you know that you can play a melody starting on any of the twelve possible notes, while still preserving its melodic and harmonic character?
As we learned in the previous two lessons on scale structure, both the Number System and Solfege can be used to describe the very same musical stuff…
If you can sing Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do up the major scale, you have the talent required to master Solfege, a skill that will take your musicianship to a whole new level…