Contents
Overview
Lesson 1 - Rhythmic Note Value, Rests, and Time Signatures.
Lesson 2 -Pitch And Note Value (Clefs)
Lesson 3 -Intervals
Lesson 4 -Linear Intervals
Lesson 5 -Vertical Intervals
Lesson 6 -Other Names For Notes
Lesson 7 -Where Chords Come From
Lesson 8 -The First Inversion
Lesson 9 -The Second Inversion Triad
Lesson 10 -Seventh Chords
Lesson 11 -24 Voicing Positions for Each Kind of Seventh Chord
Lesson 12 -Modes
Lesson 13 -The Major Scale
Lesson 14 -Major Scale Keys and Key Signatures
Lesson 15 -Chords in the Major Scale
Lesson 16 -Seventh Chords in The Major Key
Lesson 17 -Three Minor Scales and How They Grew
Lesson 18 -Chords in The Minor Key: Aeolian
Lesson 19 -Harmonic Minor
Lesson 20 -Melodic Minor
Lesson 21 -All the Minor Chords Combined
Lesson 22 -Seventh Chords in Minor
Lesson 23-The Mystery Scale
Lesson 24 -Guidelines for Music Preparation : Rhythm
Lesson 25 -Beaming
Lesson 26 -Accidentals and Their Placement
Lesson 27 -Dynamics and Other Notational Issues
Lesson 28 -Basics of Music Form
Lesson 29 -Common Tones and Triadic Chord Connections
Lesson 30 -Practical Application of Common Tones
Lesson 31 -Adding the Fourth Voice
Lesson 32 -Four Voices and The Chord Chart
Lesson 33 -Building Block Chord Progressions
Lesson 34 -Building Your Own Root Position Progressions
Lesson 35 -Chords With Third in the Bass
Lesson 36 -Third in the Bass to Third in the Bass
Lesson 37 -6/4 Chord Basics
Lesson 38 -6/4 Chord Pairings
Lesson 39 -Every 6/4 Combination in the Diatonic Key
Lesson 40 -Creating Extended Chord Progressions
Lesson 41 -Analysis of Pop Tune Progressions
Lesson 42 -Setting Up the Model
Lesson 43 -Creating a More Full Sounding Basic Arrangement
Lesson 44 -Chord Patterns for Specific Background Line Types
Lesson 45 -19 Combinations of Melody, Background Line, and Pad
Lesson 46 -Vocal Ranges/Key Selection
Lesson 47 -Your First Four - Voice Vocal Arrangement
Lesson 48 -Creating the Bass Line
Lesson 49 -Intervals and Chords
Lesson 50 -Solutions
Lesson 51 -Writing the Alto Part
Lesson 52 -Adding in the Tenor Voice
Lesson 53 -Bach Chorale Analysis
Lesson 54 -6/4 Chords: Part 1
Lesson 55 -Passing and Accented Cadential 6/4 Chords
Lesson 56 -Summary of 6/4 Combinations on Each Chord
Lesson 57 -Bach Chorales with 6/4 Chords
Lesson 58 -How to Harmonize a Given Melody Line
Lesson 59 -Compositional Techniques With the Basic Chorale Format
Lesson 60 - Application to Instrumental Writing - Part 1
Lesson 61 - Application to Instrumental Writing - Part 2
Lesson 62 - Application to Keyboard Parts
Conclusion
How to Use
Applied Professional Harmony 101 is the first harmony book, endorsed by winners (both songwriters) of the Academy™, Grammy™ and Emmy™ Awards, that combines writing and recording your work so that you learn harmony, songwriting skills, arranging, and recording/production skills with virtually every exercise you do.
APH 101 is actually two books combined into one. The first book is Music Basics, which, like its name describes, covers the fundamentals of music including pitch names, rhythm, where chords come from, scales, modal chord scales, correct chord notation and much more.
The second book initiates you into the skill-based world of writing music. From the very beginning of this second section, starting with Lesson 29, you start build chord connections and chord progressions. Rather than do this as a silent exercise on paper, you do the homework with the string, brass, woodwind, keyboard and vocal sounds that come with most notation and sequencing programs. You then record your work and save it as an MP3 (depending on your software) so you can listen to it later.
You start simply by working with triads, then connecting four-part chords, then building longer chord progressions. With the longer chord progressions you can add in bass and drums on separate to start building your arranging skills from the beginning.
In Lesson 53 you begin learning how to do four-part chorale arrangements by studying the Bach chorales.
If your goal is to be a songwriter, APH 101 is the only harmony book cued to the Craft of Lyric Writing by Sheila Davis so you can build harmony, melody and lyric writing skills, too.
RECOMMENDED TO COMPLEMENT YOUR STUDIES
If you’re doing Applied Professional Harmony as a self-study program, we highly encourage you to also order the Pace Piano Method. Your keyboard goal is getting to Grade Level 2 to develop “arranger’s chops” for both writing and sequencing.
For audio training, be sure to check out our Spectrotone™ Chart for arranging and mixing your work.