This is an article inspired by a great musician and YouTuber named Adam Neely. In the linked video, the discussion turns to the idea of brightness and darkness in chords and scales and introduces...
Category: Music Theory
Musical brightness and darkness is something that has been on my mind lately. This idea of a 'musical light spectrum' is really interesting. I call it a spectrum, but it's actually cyclical and...
The Harmonic Major Scale is probably the least know of the 4 main heptatonic scales (Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Harmonic Major). As we've done with the other scales listed above, in this...
Inspired by my Chords of the Melodic Minor Scale article, I would like to present chords based on harmonizing other heptatonic scales. In this article, we'll discuss the chords of the Harmonic...
How many possible chords are there in music? This is a question I remember thinking about when I started learning music theory but have never answered. Until now! Warning: This is some...
When thinking diatonically in functional harmony, we harmonize and build chords based on the Diatonic Scale (Major Scale and its modes). This creates strong and common chord progressions. But what...