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Music Theory for Geeks: 3 The Magic Circle

Last time I went through the chromatic and major scales. Today I’ll put the chromatic scale on a circle and create a pretty handy gadget, a low-tech computer to figure chords and scales out.

In fact I will create two circles, which we’ll attach together later. The first circle is for the “degrees”, and it will [...]

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Music Theory for Geeks: 2 The Major Scale

Now that we know what a musical note refers to, we can move on with some other basic concepts. At the end of the day, all music theory is based on the 12 notes in an octave. So once you understand how each note is related to others, the same principles hold for other octaves [...]

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Music Theory for Geeks: 1 Introduction and Basics

Music theory is hard to learn for most people. It involves a lot of abstractions at many different levels, such as notes, scales, chords, progressions, inversions, etc. It takes years to assimilate all of this information, and even more before you can actually put them to practical use. I’ve always thought that the standard learning [...]

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