• 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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    Four Diminished Chords You Can Form From The Octatonic Scale

    Explore four diminished chords and how they are formed from the octatonic scale in this lesson.

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    The Octatonic Scale: Eight Tones Per Octave

    In this lesson, we’ll study the octatonic scale, which as the prefix “octa” implies, is an 8-tone scale. We’ll also delve into examples of the octatonic scale and where it’s used.

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    How to play a pentatonic scale

    pentagon-small.jpgI’ve received a lot of questions about the pentatonic scale lately so I wanted to reserve some time to break it down. Like a pentagon, which has 5 sides, pentatonic scales have 5 notes. “Pentatonic” doesn’t mean one type of scale though, as some might think. There is a most common one that I’ll talk about below, but the truth is, there are tons of pentatonic scales and they vary widely depending on where you are in the world…

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