When you want to learn to play the piano, it can be daunting to look at all those black and white keys on the keyboard. How do people navigate around the many keys? How do you keep from getting lost? Without oversimplifying the piano keyboard, there is a pretty straightforward structure in the anatomy of […]

How do we learn piano scales efficiently? Everyone knows they are essential. They represent the vocabulary that we need to tell our story. Can we add some fun in the mix though? Does it have to be boring? Will it take me a long time? I won’t lie. Attempts to make learning scales more fun […]

A lot of what was discussed in the article about Major Scale Chord Functions is also true for the Minor Scale Chord Functions and functional harmony in general. One of the big differences in the natural minor scale aka the Aeolian mode is that the seventh degree is a minor seventh. It is a whole […]

When we want to talk about the functions of chords and functional harmony, there are some things that we need to understand first. Chord functions and in this particular case diatonic functions are a theoretical way to understand why things move or flow in a particular way in music. It gives us some ways to […]