One of life’s injustices: you don’t get to choose your relatives! As in life, music comes with relatives. Every major chord has a relative minor – or you could say every minor chord has a relative major. Likewise, scales have relatives as well. In fact, entire keys have relatives! There’s no escaping them – they’re […]
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Intervals: The Space Time Continuum of Music
In our very first post, I noted that music moves in two directions: vertically and horizontally. Music moves horizontally forward in various intervals of time – which we call rhythm. Simultaneously, music moves vertically up and down in various intervals of pitch. Individual notes and/or clusters of notes move in harmony in these two dimensions […]
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