• Sixth Day Of Christmas: Six Common Melodic Progressions

    Melodic progressions are the result of an octave being divided into equal parts. In this post, learn 6 common melodic progressions and where they’re found.

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    Fifth Day Of Christmas: Five Pentatonic Voicings

    The pentatonic scale is a very useful scale in music and has many uses. Today, we will cover chords and harmony derived from this scale.

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    Fourth Day Of Christmas: Four Triad Qualities

    A triad is a generic name used to describe chords that have a total of 3 notes per octave. Let’s explore the 4 qualities of triads: major, minor, diminished, and augmented.

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    Third Day Of Christmas: Three Primary Chords

    In this lesson, we’ll use the three primary chords to harmonize melodies – starting with the entire major scale.

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    Second Day Of Christmas: Two Tonalities

    In this post, we’ll look at tonality from a binary (two) view and also cover the intervallic dimensions that can make a key center major or minor.

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    First Day Of Christmas: One Octave

    In this post, we’ll look at the all-encompassing nature of the octave and how it contains everything you need in music: notes, scales, chords, and progressions.

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