This music composition lesson takes an opening bar and demonstrates how to modulate into three different closely related keys. The opening bar is used as a departure point for modulations to the dominant, the subdominant and the relative...

These music theory exam tips could make all the difference in your exam. Are you taking a music theory exam soon? Then this music theory lesson is for you. Find out what to take to the exam, how best to prepare, how to work through the...

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

Learn about the 7 modes of limited transposition used by Olivier Messiaen in his music. The difference between these and more common modes is explained, along with an explanation of how each mode has a particular number of possible...

An insight into the introduction of George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” to discover the skills employed to create the opening to this iconic song. This video lays out the chord scheme used during the introduction and demonstrates the...

Learn all about false relation and the two ways in which it commonly occurs. A false relation comes about when there are two notes of the same letter but with differing accidentals that either occur simultaneously or between one chord...

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...

Improve your harmony with advanced chords and learn how to write more dramatic chord progressions with this music composition tip. In this music composition lesson we analyse the harmony of the opening section of Bach’s C Minor Partita,...

Is There Life On Mars? A harmonic analysis of one of Bowie's best. We delve into the mind of the composer and explore what makes David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” such an original and iconic song. The main focus is on the harmonic content of...

Why are there three different kinds of minor music scales, what do they sound like and how are they different from one another? I try to answer all of those questions in today's Music Theory Crash Course.

What is doubling the major third? How do you know if its a major third? Can you double thirds? Why is doubling a major third bad? This music composition lesson explains one of the rules of writing four-part harmony, namely the advice to...

Season 3, Episode 19 - Two Minute Music Theory Today we begin a series on Building Chords. Starting with the two most common types of chords in western music: The Major and Minor Chords.

Many companies allow employees to occasionally use company resources for personal use. Without a clear understanding of “occasional use” employees run the risk of crossing ethical boundaries when it comes to company assets. In this...

In this video, we discuss two movements of the scapula: elevation and depression. We will see the muscles of these movements, their origins, insertions, and actions.

In this video, we explore special tests used to rule-up a tear of the infraspinatus and teres minor. Specifically, we will briefly review the infraspinatus and teres minor, demonstrate common special tests used for diagnosis, and explore...

What does a lead sheet look like and how do you play from one? This music performance lesson takes you through the first eight bars of a famous Standard, “Lullaby of Birdland”, explaining how a lead sheet works, unpacking how to read...

Learn all about ellipses for conic sections. We will discuss all the essential definitions such as center, foci, vertices, co-vertices, major axis and minor axis. We will also discuss the essential processes such as how to graph and...

In this episode of 3 Minuten Deutsch I explain how to use the possessive articles in German.

Discover an easy method to work out and accurately identify intervals using this simple interval chart. In music, an interval is a measured distance between two notes. When the notes sound at the same time it is called a harmonic...

This music theory lesson explains how to effect radical modulation by using just a single note. By using a single pivot note, rather than a pivot chord, it is possible to modulate to distant keys without making the music sound strange....

Journey through the opening of George Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland”. What makes his compositional approach so successful? We look at the design of the melody and how one phrase relates to another. We also examine the rhythmic...

Why have I never done an Analysis video? I have no idea! So, today I analyze my favorite Pentatonix song - Run To You. We'll look at how Pentatonix writes this song, and some of the things that make it awesome.

Identifying music intervals can be one of the more confusing things about learning music theory for the first time. In this video we will look at an easier way to find the names of intervals using the major scale as a reference point....

We continue our music theory adventure by looking at the different kinds of intervals in both the major and minor scales, as well as augmented and diminished intervals. There is a lot of new information in this one!