How to listen and understand the music around you.
A free resource website for all humans.
Available topics presented in progressive order:
Recent Episodes
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1. Intro
Here’s the gist of it.
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2. Solfege and the Major Scale
To “Do” or not to “Do”
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3. The Rhythm Tree
The long and the short of it.
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4. Meter
Searching for patterns.
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5. The Circle of Fifths
Round and Round We Go.
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6. Tension and Release
One cannot exist without the other.
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7. Sight-singing Strategies
Forget your voice and just sing.
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8. Stable vs Unstable Intervals
How does that make you feel?
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9. Triad-based Leaps
Harmonic leap of faith.
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10. 16th Note Patterns
The rhythm in a pizza.
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11. Compound Meter Patterns
Let’s hop to it.
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12. Triad Inversions
the world turned upside down.
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13. Intro to Basic Cadences
Every beginning has an end.
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14. Voice Leading in Harmonic Cadences
Learn the rules first so that you can break them later.
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15. Cadential 6/4 Chords
Master of disguise.
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16. Ties and Syncopation in Compound Meter
Weaken the strong, strengthen the weak