Dot-To-Dots
A Music-to-Mathematics comparison.
Music Literacy
The Why of the Phrase and the What
The why of the phrase is more important than the what.
eBook Release Day!
Big announcement today for my book *Jazz Theory for Choral Musicians*!
Descriptivism
Are you a descriptivist or a prescriptivist when it comes to music literacy?
Contextualize Your Music
The more context you can understand, the better.
Most Likely Changes
When I’m teaching “off the shelf” arrangements, these are the three things I’m most likely to, um, adjust.
Reapplying Dominant Chords
V-I isn’t the only option.
Melodic Anchor
Some of the most harmonically sophisticated songs share this feature.
Surfing The Music
Surfers don’t create the waves.
Reading Between The Ties
There’s a lot of approximated information in notation.