As you know, a lot of my blog posts have exercises at the end that invite readers to participate. One exercise might be to figure out the same chord voicing in all 12 keys, with each reader taking a key of their own (I love those!). Others are more complex.
And while these have been an overwhelming success, sometimes I’ve noticed some common mistakes when it comes to naming chords…

About a month ago, I posted a lesson on how to play pentatonic scales. As you learned in that post, this scale is called “pentatonic” because it has 5 notes. “Penta” is an ancient Greek prefix meaning “five.”
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Today’s post is about something many people haven’t heard of. But it’s something that can really make your progressions sound nice.
Time for the 4th episode of “What Key Am I In?” Let’s see how well you know your not-so-obvious major keys.
Today, we’re going to keep exploring the number system and circle of fifths and see what else we can do to spice up the primary chords we already know.
Lately we’ve been talking about 

