How to listen and understand the music around you.

 
 

A free resource website for all humans.

planet earth with headphones on

Available topics presented in progressive order:

Recent Episodes

  • An instructor explaining something in front of a whiteboard.

    1. Intro

    Here’s the gist of it.

  • hand sign for solfege syllable "Do"

    2. Solfege and the Major Scale

    To “Do” or not to “Do”

  • The Rhythm Tree

    3. The Rhythm Tree

    The long and the short of it.

  • 4. Meter

    Searching for patterns.

  • The Circle of Fifths

    5. The Circle of Fifths

    Round and Round We Go.

  • Tension and Release

    6. Tension and Release

    One cannot exist without the other.

  • sightsinging strategies

    7. Sight-singing Strategies

    Forget your voice and just sing.

  • Stable vs Unstable Intervals

    8. Stable vs Unstable Intervals

    How does that make you feel?

  • 9. Triad-based Leaps

    9. Triad-based Leaps

    Harmonic leap of faith.

  • 10. 16th Note Patterns

    The rhythm in a pizza.

  • 11. Compound Meter Patterns

    Let’s hop to it.

  • 12. Triad Inversions

    the world turned upside down.

  • 13. Intro to Basic Cadences

    Every beginning has an end.

  • 14. Voice Leading in Harmonic Cadences

    Learn the rules first so that you can break them later.

  • 15. Cadential 6/4 Chords

    Master of disguise.

  • 16. Ties and Syncopation in Compound Meter

    Weaken the strong, strengthen the weak