Chords and Chord Progressions 201
What you'll learn
- Explore intermediate level chord progressions and cadences
- Apply inversions to your progressions
- Understand the beginning stages of applying melody to your harmony
- Analyze various chords types: 5 chords, 6 chords, sus chords, etc.
- Learn when to omit notes and how inner voice leadings work
Requirements
- It's preferred that you've taken the 101 level of this course beforehand, but intermediate level pianists may find that they can jump right into this course.
Description
Welcome to 'Chords and Chord Progressions 201'!
These classes are designed to act as a reference of material to help ease the learning process for beginner-intermediate level composers and performers hoping to learn more about harmony. In this course we will be taking your knowledge of chords, and the movement between chords, and discussing how to get to the next pofessional level.
Whether you want to spice up your favorite progressions, or just get some ideas as to what progressions resonate with you, this course has you covered. We even start to discuss how melody relates to harmony, to give some insight as to how to further develop harmonic application.
- Play chord progressions efficiently with inversions
- Connect your harmony through inner voice leading
- Spice up the progressions you know with new chord types
- Learn when to omit notes to de-clutter your progressions
- Learn more about how to add tension to progressions with dominant 7th chords/
We cover a range of material that is designed to either help you establish your foundational knowledge about harmony, or further fill out your understanding of harmony. So, start by reviewing the class titles and see if the content in this course might help you advance as a composer/performer/pianist.
So let's dive in and amp up your theoretical knowledge around this dense topic!
Who this course is for:
- Pianists and composers looking to further develop their understanding of chords, chord progressions, and harmony.
- Other chord based instrumentalists can also benefit from this material, but know that it is explained in a piano-based environment.
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
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- 1,473 Students
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Josh Cook is a musician and composer who is proud to call Toronto his home. Here in the city his musical talents have flourished to career highs. While educating himself at York University Josh earned his master’s degree in music composition and performed in a local band called Cool Man Cool. The band's success earned them an opportunity to share the stage with the legendary Pharrell Williams (as N.E.R.D). Josh’s love for the studio blossomed while co-writing and producing Cool Man Cool's first full length studio album.
After honing his musical performanace talents, he began to focus on his true passion of digital composition and studio production. Josh has an extensive library of his own music, primarily within electronic, hip-hop, orchestral, and solo piano. He has also mixed and mastered numerous albums by artists such as Simcoe and Chloe Watkinson.
Josh’s never-ending creativity is not something he keeps to himself. For the past decade he has been teaching music and passing on his knowledge and skills to budding musicians throughout Toronto and the GTA.
Currently Josh is focusing his talents on a career in composing for film/video. Despite Josh’s love for audio he has always been inspired by the visual arts which provides him with the unique ability to bring images to life with his sonic creations.
Josh is now focusing his attention towards online courses, developing his social media presence, and composing music for media. His philosophy is "The more I learn, the more I teach. The more I teach, the more I learn".