In this video, I walk through my personal routine for practicing altered dominant chords, especially rootless voicings for #5 ...

Improvising Passing Diminished Chords There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them? Gain some ...

Often when discussing songwriting, we divide it into its two main elements, words and music. But just as lyrics contain a multitude of sub-categories and considerations, so does music. It contains the ...

After working with major, minor, dominant, and half-diminished chords, it’s time to explore fully diminished 7ths and augmented triads. These chord types offer unique harmonic possibilities and ...

Among the most cherished elements of the holiday season is Christmas music. It’s perhaps the only holiday that comes with its own soundtrack, songs ranging from the secular to the sacred. Today we ...