• Whole Tone Scale Demystified

    The whole tone scale is a useful one to know and because of its unique structure, very versatile. It is a 6-tone scale consisting of all whole steps. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

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    Melodic Minor 7th Chords Demystified

    In this lesson, learn the melodic minor scale and the melodic minor 7th chords formed on each tone of the scale.

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    Do You Know These Bebop Scales?

    Learn the ins and outs of 5 bebop scales – bebop dominant scale, bebop major, bebop dorian, bebop melodic, bebop harmonic – and how to use them in this lesson.

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    A Complete Guide to Piano Chords

    Piano chords are like blood to the human body. Without them, your songs won’t have life. And if chords are blood, chord progressions represent the flow of blood. In this post, we’re going to explore all the different types of piano chords you need to know in order to play most of today’s songs.

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    Major and Minor Chords – “If You Know Your Major, You Know Your Minor” (Part 2)

    To pick up where we left off yesterday, I’d like to talk about the connection between major and minor chords. You now realize that you can form any minor scale by knowing the relative major scale it’s connected to. In other words, you can play the “A minor” scale if you already know the notes of the “C major” scale because they’re related. Here’s how to apply this same understanding to chords…

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    Major and Minor Scales – “If You Know Your Major, You Know Your Minor” (Part 1)

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    Learning the connection between major and minor scales is really simple when you understand the shortcut we’re going to cover in this blog post. There’s absolutely no reason to approach minor scales separately from major scales if you know this trick. I repeat — throw what you’ve learned about forming minor scales out the window unless you want to go at it the hard way. Why?

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    How To Figure Out The “Natural” Chords Of Every Key

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    In the 300-pg course, “The Secrets To Playing Piano By Ear,” we cover the diatonic chords of every major scale. Don’t worry if you don’t know what “diatonic” means — it’s just a fancy way of saying “pertaining to the major or minor scale,” the most common of all scales. Each major key has a set of diatonic chords that naturally occur on each tone of the scale. To figure out these chords, just…

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