Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 15 - Chromatic Harmony

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier.

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making for Udemy use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier.

My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.

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Throughout this class, If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I'll back to it as fast as possible.

This class is Part 15: Chromatic Harmony. We will be learning a few new chords in this class - the Neapolitan Six chord, and the family of Augmented Six Chords: French 6, Italian 6, and German 6.

In this class, we will cover:
Mode Mixture
4-Voice Harmony in Mixture Settings
Modification to Earlier Rules
Solfege in Chromatic Settings
The Chromatic Pre-Dominant Chords
The Neapolitan Six Chord
Analysis: Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
Analysis: Piano Sonata in D Major (Mozart)
Italian Augmented 6th Chords
French Augmented 6th Chords
German Augmented 6th Chords
Resolutions to Augmented 6th Chords
Analysis: Mozart String Quartet
How to Study for Music Theory Placement Tests
…and much, much more!