• You Can Learn How To Harmonize The Octatonic Scale In 15 Minutes

    This lesson is for all musicians (especially jazz and gospel pianists) who want to learn how to harmonize the octatonic scale.

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    Who Else Wants To Learn About The Augmented Scale?

    This lesson will put all you need to know about the augmented scale within your grasp.

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    Melodic and Harmonic Approaches to Side-Stepping and Resolving

    In this post, we’ll exploring “playing outside” by side-stepping to adjacent keys and how to resolve back to inside notes when the time is right.

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    Taking Your Playing Outside: Basics to Side-Stepping

    We introduced “playing outside” in a previous post on bitonality. In this post, we are taking our playing outside again using another concept: side-stepping.

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    Bitonality: License to Play In Two Keys At Once (Playing Outside)

    In this lesson, we’ll explore bitonality or “playing outside” and use the tritone progression as our introduction to bitonality.

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    Avoiding the Avoid Note

    In this post, we’ll discuss what an avoid note is, why to avoid it, and how to replace avoid notes with more consonant notes.

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