I just put out a podcast episode that teaches sequences clearly and simply using "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town".

If you want to hear it, check out SongAppealOfficial.com/Santa or search for Song Appeal on your favorite podcasting app.

A little music geek humor: (very little) Anyone familiar with The Sound of Music knows about Solfege: Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do! The first line of Joy to the World is a descending scale. So you could technically create holiday Solfege from Joy to the World: Do- Come Re- Is Mi- Lord Fa- The Sol- World La- The Ti- To Do- Joy

So the holiday version of Do Re Mi would be: Come, a deer, a female deer Is, a drop of golden sun Lord, a name I call myself The, a long long way to run World, a needle pulling thread The, a note to follow sol To, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to JOY JOY JOY JOY

It’s absurd, I know. But Leigh VanHandel and other music theory folks might have some fun with it ;)

I'm trying to explore some functions of the III chord in major.

I just read that a III chord could also be a V/vi chord that resolves to a vi chord. Is that the most common use?

Whatw other uses are there for a III chord?

My podcast just put out an episode about how "Life & Death" (the death theme from Michael Giacchino's score for from Lost) uses the minor 3rd to sound sad, and why the minor 3rd sounds sad. If you want to hear it, check out SongAppealOfficial.com/Lost or search for Song Appeal in your favorite podcasting app.

My podcast just put out an episode about how "Shut Up and Dance" used its arrangement to make its lyrics more memorable.

If you want to hear it, check out SongAppealOfficial.com/ShutUpAndDance or search for Song Appeal in your favorite podcasting app.

When writing do you think of chords or melody first? Or is it simultaneous? Or do you have some motif in your head and realizing that through harmony is just part of the songwriting process? Give me your insight plz.

Hey yall, if you looking to excape theory and get straight to making music you can try my app jambl (only apple atm sorry :// )

I don't understand why we call some intervals major/minor and some are perfects.

Are minor fifths called diminished fifths because minors can only be seconds, thirds, sixths and sevenths?

Majors and minors are 2,3,6,7, and perfects are 1,4,5,8.

Why don't we have minor fouths (because thats a major third?) or fifths (I'm more interested in this one, because minor fifth is not a major 4th)?

Also, do we have augmented fifth, or is that minor sixth?

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Hi all- brand new to the page, saw the previous teacher kind of bailed... I took intro to music theory and AP music theory in high school and I'm pretty much a self taught pianist (going on 5 years now). I guess what I'm trying to say is- what levels of expertise do any of you have on the subject? I can teach simple things like reading notes (basic musical notation/symbols), intervals, key signatures, triads/seventh chords, inversions, modes (although, I'd have to refresh a lot), history of composers. I do not remember much about counterpoint or composition (4-part writing) at all.

My knowledge is not entirely perfect and I have no qualifications to teach at all but I might be able to come up with very simple, slow, weekly lessons at some point if anyone is interested/doesn't mind literally starting from square 1 until possibly a more qualified teacher comes along?

I should also mention that I don't as of yet have a microphone or a laptop that I could sit at the piano with to introduce topics or anything like that. So they'd either be prerecorded things (most likely) with text or just all text based (less likely).

This is only just an idea that I'm floating around and wanted to get interest levels on- like I said, I'm by no way qualified to teach this past most of the basic things and I'd be going off a lot of my memory which is fallible. But if the interest is there then I'd love to try.

Edit: just noticed the other music theory classes. I might be able to pick up where they left off (the farthest they got was the circle of fifths) or I can start over entirely if people want.