Minor-Key Harmony

Your pathway to great songwriting

What you'll learn

Demystify minor-key harmony

Use Minor-Key Harmony to improve songwriting skills

Expand your harmonic vocabulary

Learn to hear harmonic content in hit songs

Requirements

Basic knowledge of piano or guitar

Description

Discover Your Sound’s Basic Harmony – Minor Tonality course presents all the most important aspects of how scales, chords, and their relationships, provide the building blocks for songwriters and composers to write music that has creative depth and expressive clarity. The course is presented by topic and broken into short videos which are presented in a clear and easy-to-follow style by composer/producer Dave Blackburn, who brings his decades of teaching experience to the course.The topics presented apply equally to songwriters working in different styles and together form a solid understanding of the principles of harmony as it is most often employed in contemporary songwriting.COMPLETING THIS COURSE WILL HELP YOU:This course is designed to help all music makers understand the most important aspects of musical harmony for improving their songwriting, whether they approach it as a guitarist or piano player. The course will inspire appreciation of some classic songwriter’s work and foster fresh ideas for your own.· Build confidence in your songwriting· De-mystify harmonic concepts· Help you break out of creative “ruts”· Write with a sense of direction· Avoid repetitiveness· Avoid stagnant chord progressions· Recognize chord progressions by ear· Understand the harmonic structures of classic songs· Expand your songwriting resourcesWHO IS THE COURSE FOR?This course is designed to help all music makers understand the most important aspects of musical harmony for improving their songwriting, whether they approach it as a guitarist or piano player. The course will inspire appreciation of some classic songwriter’s work and foster fresh ideas for your own.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 The Natural Minor Scale

Lecture 3 The Harmonic Minor Scale

Lecture 4 The Melodic Minor Scale

Lecture 5 Minor Scales Summary

Lecture 6 Building Minor Scale Chords

Lecture 7 Natural Minor Scale Chords

Lecture 8 Harmonic Minor Scale Chords

Lecture 9 Melodic Minor Scale Chords

Lecture 10 The Dorian Mode

Lecture 11 The Phrygian Mode

Lecture 12 Modal Interchange

Lecture 13 Modal Interchange Example

Lecture 14 Secondary Dominant Chords

Lecture 15 Modulation

Lecture 16 Subdominant Minor Chords

Lecture 17 A prime example of Minor-Key Harmony use

This is an ideal course for songwriters, guitar and piano players