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Building Major Scales!

Hey Guys! Today I’m going to be talking to y’all about creating major scales! The major scale is one of the most essential scales to...

Double Sharps and Flats

Wassup Guys! I wanted write a quick post today talking about the use of double sharp and flat accidentals in major scales! I'm posting a...

Enharmonic Equivalents

Hey Guys! It's been a super long time since I've updated on my music blogs. Life got the best of me for a while but I'm going to change...

Bass and Treble Clef

I've been writing down a lot of letters to document my learning when it comes to reading notes. But in order to really read or write...

Intervals of the C Major Scale

I've posted before about intervals and being able to distinguish both the type and quality of distances between notes, but I wanted to...

All Major Scales for All Keys

Before now, I was always extremely hesitant to jump into learning music theory because I associated everything with math. Math and music...

Understanding Sharps and Flats

I'm sure that many of you would agree when I say that music would be a hell of a lot easier if everything were as simple to understand as...

All Modes, All Notes

I am ALL about repetition. I like to write my major and minor scales every single day to keep my brain comfortable with knowing them by...

Augmented and Diminished Triads

We've talked about building major and minor triads and the intervals within each of the three notes used to create them. To make a major...

Minor Scales: Harmonic and Melodic

So, you thought there was only major and minor, huh? Well, so did I. But apparently, the natural minor scale comes with a posse. Kinda...

The Moods of Music: Modes

I like to think of modes as music having multiple personalities. Modes have different patterns that lay out the intervals between notes...

The Building Blocks of (Minor) Triads

In my last post I dove into major triads and the intervals used to create them. If you understand major triads then comprehending the...

The Building Blocks of Triads

When In Doubt, Intervals There are many types of chords that can be made when we combine and stack notes on top of each other in...

Major and Minor Thirds

Okay, what the hell. I thought this was music, not algebra. Music is not algebra, but let’s just say that music and math are basically...

The Best Visuals of Minor Scales on a Piano

The best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are...

Finding Relative Minors

Inside the circle of fifths, we place the relative minors to each of the corresponding notes on the outside of the circle. To find the...

Understanding the Circle of Fifths

The circle of fifths in music theory is used to represent the intervals between each of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale ( C,...

The Best Visuals of Major Scales on a Piano

The best way for me to learn is by forcing myself to constantly write the scales out and remember where they are on a piano. These are...

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