I've gotten a lot of questions over the last 5 years. Some of them more than others, so today I'm starting an FAQ series. Today, we'll look at how to listen for the intervals and hear them better.

A look at the four types of Seventh Chords

“Saving all my love for you”, made famous by Whitney Houston when she released her cover of the single in 1985. The harmony forms the focus of this composer insights lesson, with the use of extended chords and slash chords fully...

Getting scary music ready for Halloween? Mr. Henry puts the music spotlight on What Makes Music Sound Scary? Learning about how certain chords create scary sounding music. You can even take the listening quiz to check up on your aural...

How Debussy makes use of the whole tone scale to achieve his signature evocative sound. We look through his Piano Prelude “Voiles”. The use of low dynamics, slow tempo and plenty of rhythmic space are just three of the ingredients...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star harmonized in four different styles, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century. In the first style the melody is presented as a Cantus Firmus in Baroque style with two lower parts added below using Baroque...

So far we have talked about how to build triads and seventh chords but today we are going to talk about how to voice those chords. There are two main kinds of chord voicing. Open chords and close chords. We talk about how to identify...