Healing Sound & Music Articles
When I work with students on composition, especially in the area of harmonic development, they can wrap their heads around the triad, build triads from a major scale and even try basic chord progressions. But, when the concept of suspended chords, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths and 13ths come into the...
When I coach up and coming producers in piano technique, they often want to explore ways to play through chord progressions with two hands. It's important for producers to have some basic piano skills, not only for understanding music theory, but also to perform or record their ideas with greater...
Drones are essentially sustained or continuous tones that establish a tonal center to accompany melodic instruments or voices. A drone can simply be the root note of a particular key, or a root and it’s octave. The fifth or fourth is often added to establish more harmonic...
