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Interval Inversion: Flipping the Musical Equation
Every interval has a mirror image. Take a third and flip it — move the lower note up an octave, or the upper note down — and you get a sixth.
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Syncopation and the Heartbeat of Latin Music
Syncopation is the art of landing where the listener does not expect you to land. In a normally accented rhythm, the heaviest emphasis falls on the beat itself…
Read MoreSwing, Shuffle, and Straight: How Eighth Notes Feel Different
Two eighth notes look identical on a page. But how they are played — and how they feel — depends entirely on the style of music and the instructions (explicit…
Read MoreThe Circle of Fifths: Tool Number Three
Tool Number Three is a diagram. It looks like a clock — twelve positions arranged in a circle — but instead of hours, it shows key signatures.
Read MoreThe Major Scale: Seven Steps to Anywhere
A scale is not a melody. It is an ordered inventory of the pitches available in a given key — the pool from which melodies, harmonies, and progressions are…
Read MoreIntervals: The Building Blocks of Melody and Harmony
An interval is the distance between two pitches. It is the most fundamental measurement in music theory — the unit from which melodies are constructed…
Read MoreThe Overtone Series: Music’s Hidden Math
Here is a fact that might change how you hear music: every sound you have ever listened to is actually many sounds at once.
Read MoreRepeats, Roadmaps, and the Art of Musical Navigation
Music is repetition, variation, and contrast — in some combination, in virtually every piece ever written.
Read MorePhrases, Periods, and the Architecture of Musical Sentences
Musical phrases are the building blocks of melody — the smallest complete units of meaning in a piece of music. Music is a language.
Read MoreSharps, Flats, and the Enharmonic Twins
The musical alphabet has seven letters — A through G — and the piano keyboard has twelve distinct pitches per octave.
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