A COURSE IN 8 CHAPTERS
From individual notes to freer playing
Eight connected chapters. Follow the course or start with the question on your mind.
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Notes, intervals and octaves
Get to know the distances that music is made of.
Scales, keys and a sense of home
A collection of notes becomes tonal music around a centre.
The chords inside a scale
Build a harmonic vocabulary from seven notes.
Octaves, inversions and voice leading
The same chord tones can be placed in many different ways.
The circle of fifths as a map
Understand why neighbouring keys share almost all their notes.
Find chords for a melody
Turn a melody into possibilities you can hear and compare.
Vocal harmony and independent voices
A harmony part is a melody from another point of view.
Blues, tension and improvisation
Use what you already play as a way into harmony.