Secondary Dominants in Christmas Music
In this lesson I explored the use of secondary dominants in a few well known Christmas songs.
Then I had a little fun recording some four part harmony on O Come All Ye Faithful
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What Does it Look Like to Prepare for a Show?
We'll talk about a checklist for your first show, mindset, gear, what songs to plan, how much to prepare, stuff like that.
Then I'll take questions!
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Refining an Idea
Bringing a song from the creation stage, through the editing/arrangement stage, and into the finalizing stage.
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How to Harmonize a Melody
This lesson was all about how to harmonize a melody. If you'd like to learn how to write a melody, check out my Melody Making Course.
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Fun with Pedals
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Melody Making Magic
We're going to explore some cool melody making concepts using the attached PDF.
This would be a great lesson to come back to after watching my Melody Making series
If you’re watching later and you still have questions, feel free to comment below or ask on the next Office Hours, every Thursday at 10am Pacific.
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Spooky Music
In this lesson we discuss a symmetrical scale consisting of R w 2 h 3 w 4 h 5 w 6 h 7 w 8 h R - resulting in two nested fully diminished chords. It creates an eerie tonality with no home.
Then we dive into the whole tone scale, frequently used in dream sequences in movies and TV, and on shoes like the Twilight Zone and plenty of others. It gives you augmented chords to play with.
Chord Clusters!
I'll be talking about chord clusters, which is just a fun way to think about playing all the chords in a key within the space of just a few frets. I'll give you a sense of the concept, why its important/useful/fun, and a couple ways to practice and use the concept.
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Fun with Roman Numerals!
This week we're talking Roman Numerals - specifically how to think about crafting chord progressions, bass lines, and melodies with loose chords in mind instead of very specific chords. It's amazing how much freedom there is within the Roman Numeral system with this mindset.
If you can't make it live, you can always watch later!
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Writing Complementary Chord Progressions
This is a little lesson about how I approach writing chord progressions that go together. I talk about the descriptive method, what to look out for tonally, rhythmically, and dynamically. I put my own methods to the test in a logic pro project and goof around too much with keyboard bass.
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