The Power of Music Theory

• Players at all levels will benefit
• Understand how your favorite songs work
• Dramatically improve your ability to play “by ear”
• Develop a large library of melodic possibilities using patterns you already know
• Apply modal theory to your riffs and solos, even with minimal understanding of theory
• Recognize and identify chord progressions by listening to songs
• Analyze solos and apply the melodic concepts to your own music

Principles of Tonality

• Symmetrical and non-symmetrical scales
• Chromatic, whole tone and diatonic scales
• Establishing a tonal center
• Centering the tonality of a phrase

• Using the five patterns taught earlier in the course to play seven different modes
• Identifying the different sounds of the modes
• Shortcuts to organizing and remembering modal patterns
• Transposing modal patterns to other keys
• Substituting pentatonic scales for major and minor modes

• Chord Formulas
• Triads and Seventh Chords
• Diatonic Harmony
• Modal Harmony
• Building your own chord voicings in any key
• Determining the key and mode of a song
• Relative Keys
• I-IV-V Progression
• Sub-Dominant and Dominant Chords
• Harmonic Minor

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