#harmony
- Chord progressions conceptChords have jobs: degree 1 ( tonic ) is home, degree 5 ( dominant ) pulls back home, degree 4 ( subdominant ) is the scenic route between them. Most songs are clever trips away from home and back. Written as scale …
- Diatonic chords — why it is not always 0 3 7 conceptA triad = root + a third + a fifth, but "a third" comes in two sizes (minor +3, major +4) and the fifth is usually +7, sometimes +6 or +8:
- TW #74–86 — Introduction to Musical Theory, vols 1–5 (Greg Heo) summaryA beginner's theory course written for trackers by greg-heo , who admits "I'm not an experienced tracker" but had a music teacher's vocabulary. Every example is given in tracker terms.