Music Theory
Scales, modes, chords, progressions and tempo.
Field guide / Music Theory
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Articles in Music Theory
- Scales explained What a scale is, how whole and half steps build major and natural minor, how relative keys share notes, and why pentatonic scales are so easy to use.
- Modes explained What musical modes are, how each one is a rotation of the major scale, and what mood every mode gives you in practice.
- Chords and how they are built Intervals, triads, seventh chords and the diatonic chords of major and natural minor keys, with the Roman numeral naming convention explained.
- Chord progressions How chords function as tonic, subdominant and dominant, why V to I resolves, and the common progressions worked out in C major and A minor.
- Tempo, time signatures and note timing BPM, time signatures, note values and the milliseconds-per-beat formula, with a worked table for setting delay and reverb pre-delay times.