Harmony and Theory Course

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What you will learn in this course

In this course, you will learn musical harmony and chords in depth (along with the essential basic theory needed to truly understand harmony). Among other things, you will learn how to:

build and use basic chords
connect chords following a logical progression
learn how to use seventh chords
correctly play all types of chords
fully understand inversions and cadences
learn how to modulate effectively
get to know altered chords and other extended chords (9th, 11th, and 13th)

Please Note: These lessons are for everyone—beginners and professionals alike—regardless of the instrument played.
Some videos include piano examples for clarity, but using them does not require any piano technique knowledge.

Here is the list of video lessons for the course

Part 1: Scale and tonality

Part 2: The role of notes in different tonalities

Part 3: Chords and tonality

Part 1: What is a Musical Interval?

Part 2: The Half Tone and the Whole Tone

Part 3: How to Find the Notes of All Major Scales

Part 4: Practice with G Major Scale and E-Flat Major Scale

Part 1: Melodic intervals and harmonic intervals

Part 2: How to determine the 'Generale Name' of an interval

Part 3: How to find the 'Generale Name' in case of sharps or flats

Part 1: How to Build Chords on a Major Scale

Part 2: Finding All Chords in E Major

Part 3: The Importance of the Scale and the Key in Building and Using Chords

Part 1: The accidentals (sharp and flat)

Part 2: Diatonic half tones and chromatic half tones

Part 3: The A major scale case

Part 1: Where did we leave off last time?

Part 2: Temporary accidentals and permanent accidentals – How to alter current alterations?

Part 3: What double accidentals?

Part 1: First method: chords built on major scales

Part 2: Second method, four steps to find chords in a few seconds

Part 3: Four examples to practice what we’ve learned

Part 1: the relative minor scale

Part 2: the natural minor scale and the harmonic minor scale

Part 3: the melodic minor scale

Part 2: Building chords in a minor key

Part 3: How to build chords using the harmonic and melodic minor scale

Part 4: How to use all these chords in a very effective way

Part 2: How to find all the notes of minor scales pt.1

Part 3: How to find all the notes of minor scales pt.2

Part 4: Two examples of applying this method

Part 5: The minor keys

Part 6: The relations between major and minor scales

Part 2: Dominant chord and fifth degree chord

Part 3: How to reach a strong tonal sense or a tonal ambiguity.

Part 4: Mixing chords of different minor scales, practice 1

Part 5: Mixing chords of different minor scales, practice 2

Part 2: the specific name of an interval

Part 3: major intervals

Part 4: perfect intervals

Part 2: We introduce a new and crucial element

Part 3: The overtones theory and its importance in harmony

Part 4: Triad inversions

Part 5: How inversions allow us to have many new tools

Part 2: Above and below major intervals

Part 3: Above and below perfect intervals

Part 4: Practice

Part 5: How to find the specific name for intervals wider than one octave

Part 2: The sonor features of inversions

Part 3: The first benefit

Part 4: The second benefit

Part 5: The third benefit

Part 6: The names of the inversions and how they are represented grafically 1

Part 7: The names of the inversions and how they are represented grafically 2

Part 1: Twist and Shout - Beatles

Part 2: Enola Gay - OMD

Part 3: Let it be - Beatles (Part one)

Part 4: Let it be - Beatles (Part two)

Part 1: The Sound of Silence - Simon and Gurfunkel (part 1)

Part 2: The Sound of Silence - Simon and Gurfunkel (part 2)

Part 3: What are the cadences

Part 4: The first four types of cadences

Part 1: What consonances and dissonances are

Part 2: The way to classify intervals in consonances and dissonances

Part 3: Practical examples of consonances and dissonances

Part 4: What is 'resolution' and its important consequences in studying harmony

Part 1: The interrupted cadence, the decepted cadence, the mixed cadence

Part 2: The use of the first three cadences in minor keys

Part 3: The use of the other cadences in minor keys and the phrygian cadence

Part 4: We look for cadences in famous songs that we have already studied

Part 1: Consonant and dissonant chords

Part 2: Consonant triads in major scales

Part 3: Dissonant triads in major scales

Part 4: Consonant and dissonant chords in minor scales

Part 5: Here is how to obtain other dissonant chords

Part 1: The problem of black keys and how to determine the pitch of notes

Part 2: The first two musical systems

Part 3: How can G sharp and E flat have a different pitch?

Part 4: The equal tempered system and the main consequence of its introduction

Part 1: How to build 4 notes chords

Part 2: The seventh chord on the major scale

Part 3: Learn to call all notes of the chord in a correct way

Part 4: The seventh chords on other degrees of a major scale- Various examples

Part 1: Equal tempered scale and harmonic relation

Part 2: What are enharmonic equivalents

Part 3: The first consequence of using of enharmonic relation

Part 4: The second consequence of using of enharmonic relation

Part 5: The third consequence of using enharmonic relation

Part 1: The characteristics of seventh chords

Part 2: The first 4 types of seventh chords

Part 3: The other three types of seventh chords

Part 4: How to name seventh chords

Part 1: The world of seventh chords

Part 2: How do we resolve the seventh in seventh chords?

Part 3: How to play seventh chords at the piano/keyboard

Part 4: A rapid way to find seventh chords at the piano

Part 5: The first resolution of the dominant seventh chord

Part 6: The second resolution of the dominant seventh chord

Part 7: Two considerations on the resolution with interrupted cadence and some practical

Part 1: Why music is motion

Part 2: What are downbeat and upbeat

Part 3: Binary, ternary and quaternary rhythmn

Part 4: Rhythmic accents: strong beat and weak beat

Part 5: Two considerations about the importance of strong beat

Part 1: The dominant seventh in harmonic minor scale

Part 2: The inversions of dominant seventh chord

Part 3: How to call inversions of dominant seventh chord

Part 4: The resolution of inversions of dominant seventh chord

Part 5: How to resolve inversions in harmonic minor scale and some practical examples

Part 6: The passing seventh

Part 1: When to use dominant seventh chord and why it has a strong tension

Part 2: Seventh chords on the seventh degree

Part 3: The leading tone seventh chord and how to play it at the piano

Part 4: Resolutions of leading tone seventh chord

Part 5: Inversions of leading tone seventh chord

Part 1: The relations between tonalities

Part 2: Different keys, common notes

Part 3: A characteristic feature of tonalities, the key signature

Part 4: Flat keys

Part 5: The key signature for minor keys: permanent and temporary accidentals

Part 6: Relations between major and minor keys

Part 1: Leading tone seventh chord and half-diminshed seventh chord

Part 2: The diminished seventh chord

Part 3: Why the diminished seventh chord has such a strong tension

Part 4: Extended use of the chord

Part 5: The case of third minors: any part we look at it, the chord is exactly the same

Part 6: How enharmonic relation allows the change of the chord

Part 7: The diminished seventh chord: not only one, but... four different chords

Part 1: Secondary seventh chords

Part 2: Natural seventh chords and the overtones theory

Part 3: Dominant ninth chord

Part 4: Difference between natural and secondary seventh chords

Part 1: Introduction to the lesson

Part 2: The fifth relation between major keys

Part 3: The fifth relation between minor keys

Part 4: Key signature and fifth relation

Part 5: A very easy method to find the key signature for any tonality

Part 1: Introduction to the lesson

Part 2: The “Preparation” of secondary seventh chords

Part 3: The three phases of secondary seventh chords

Part 4: Minor seventh chords

Part 5: Application of minor seventh chords

Part 1: Introduction to the lesson

Part 2: Minor seventh chords in minor key

Part 3: Half-diminished seventh chords

Part 4: How to build half-diminished seventh chords in major scales

Part 5: Practical exercises

Part 1: Introduction to the lesson

Part 2: The fifth relation and the circle of fifths

Part 3: How can we obtain the circle of fifths

Part 4: Closely related keys and distantly related keys

Part 5: How to understand modulations through the circle of fifths

Part 6: The major scale degrees and closely related keys: a very strong relation

Part 1: Minor major seventh chords

Part 2: Augmented major seventh chords

Part 3: The passage seventh: a case in which 'preparation' is not necessary

Part 4: Seventh chords, a way to obtain different harmonic colours

Part 5: How to modify chord progressions thanks to the use of the seventh

Part 6: How to represent graphically seventh chords.

Part 7: The notation of seventh chords in pop music.

Part 1: How to differentiate harmony in the case of a piece divided into 2 parts

Part 2: The first way to differentiate chord progressions

Part 3: The second way

Part 4: The third way

Part 5: The fourth way and a look at future lessons

Part 1: The Challenge of Modulation

Part 2: Practical Tips to Start Modulating

Part 3: The Different Types of Modulation

Part 4: The Three Phases of Modulation (Part 1)

Part 5: The Three Phases of Modulation (Part 2)

Part 1: The Critical Phase of Modulation

Part 2: The Importance of Cadences in Modulation

Part 3: The Pivot Chord

Part 4: How to Use the Pivot Chord

Part 1: The Second Method of Modulation

Part 2: Examples of Applying the Second Method

Part 3: Chromatic Alteration and Changing a Chord Note: How to Achieve an Even More Interesting Result

Part 4: More Examples of Modulations with Alterations in Other Keys

Part 5: The Third Method of Modulation

Part 1: Modulation between Relative Keys

Part 2: Examples of Modulations from the Major Key to Its Relative Minor

Part 3: The Use of the Dominant Seventh in Modulations

Part 4: Examples of Modulations from the Minor Key to Its Relative Major

Part 1: The Crucial Chords of the New Key

Part 2: Crucial Chords – What They Are and How to Find Them

Part 3: Using Minor Chords as Crucial Chords in the New Key (1)

Part 4: Using Minor Chords as Crucial Chords in the New Key (2)

Part 5: Major Chords Used as Crucial Chords

Part 6: How a Major Chord Can Become the Dominant of the New Key

Part 1: How to Transform Minor Chords for Modulation

Part 2: How to Transform Major Chords for Modulation

Part 3: Other Ways to Transform Minor Chords in Modulation

Part 4: Other Ways to Transform Major Chords in Modulation

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