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Learn how to build and recognise major and minor chords. This music theory lesson teaches you how to construct major and minor chords above any given note. Two techniques are explained, one based on intervals and the other based on...

Writing bad four part harmony?! Lots of people manage part of the journey with four-part harmony then get stuck or struggle to develop an outcome that is musically satisfying. This music composition lesson starts with a piece of...

Secondary Dominants can be a little confusing. Why does the label look like a fraction? What does it mean to borrow a chord from another key? We'll talk about all of that today.

How to go about realizing more advanced figured bass, including how to read diatonic chords and seventh chords in figured bass and how to play a short passage from a figured bass. In this music theory lesson the figured bass system is...

We often see accidentals in music but they have different significance depending on the context. Accidentals might be flagging up a key change, or they might be decorative chromatic notes, or they might be signifying a minor key, or they...

The video explains how to construct roads to reach different gates in a circular vegetable garden. It also teaches how to identify tangents and chords and construct tangents using geometry. The video provides step-by-step instructions...

It's Two Minute Music Theory's 7th Birthday! I thought it would be appropriate to release a good old fashioned TMMT episode that's not 2 minutes long. Thanks to everyone for all of your support the last 7 years. Here's to the next 7.

A look at how Bach elaborates a chord progression in one of his chorale harmonizations. We examine the choice of harmony, chromatic chords, secondary dominants, borrowed chords. and modulation, the part writing, the use of inessential...

To round out our 2nd series on Chords, today we look at the chords with Subdominant Function - the ii and the IV chords.

Analysis of how to use the different types of Augmented Sixth Chords

In this video, you will learn how to add the next hidden layer.
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This clip is from the chapter "Implementation of ANN in Python" of the series "Python for Deep Learning — Build Neural Networks in Python".In this section, you...

This video shows how to solve two problems involving angles in a circle. It first shows how to find the size of an angle at the center of a circle when given an angle at the circumference. Part two of the problem shows how to find the...

How did Brahms go about composing music? Let's explore part of the opening section of the Intermezzo op118 no2 by Brahms as we try to answer that very question. We explain how Brahms handles the repetition of the opening phrase, which...

In this video, we will cover 3D visualization of the predicted values.
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This clip is from the chapter "Clustering" of the series "Python for Machine Learning - The Complete Beginner's Course".In this section, you will learn...

There are two main kinds of chord voicing. Open chords and close chords. We talk about how to identify each kind of chord and how to write open and close chords. This is the first video in introducing chord voicing. Thanks for watching!

How all the different types of chords can be inverted

Many musicians find Augmented 6th chords to be confusing, and possibly made up by their theory professor. Today on Two Minute Music Theory, we seek to dispel the confusion with Augmented 6th Chords Made Easy!

Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord VII what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from...

What is the difference between a suspension and an appoggiatura? This music theory lesson explains how appoggiaturas are leaning notes and how to write them as dissonances moving by step to consonances It then explains the difference...

How to easily choose chords and harmonize a melody on the piano. Have you got a melody that you want to harmonise i.e. find chords to fit with it? In this music theory lesson we take a melody and work out how to find the best chords to...

An analysis of Pp.79 no.2 G minor Rhapsody by Brahms. It takes Brahms a considerable number of bars to establish the home key and meanwhile he travels through a range of other keys. The melodic line is explored, including the growth of...

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How did Franz Liszt compose and what are some of the hallmarks of his compositional style? We try to get inside the head of Liszt and unpack the first page of his monumental Sonata in B minor for piano, of 1854. We explore the shielding...