AMA Verlag Rock & Jazz Harmony

Content:

• 1 Basics
• Our sound system
• Reading music: a crash course in 5 minutes
• accidental
• natural sign
• ledger lines
• bass clef
• octaves
• scales
• The major scale
• What are rules?
• B and H, an annoying problem
• Intervals - a short introduction
• triads
• Chord symbols for triads
• keys
• Chords and scales
• circle of fifths
• Step chords in major
• power chords
• Leading note and dominant seventh chord
• The World in Minor - Part 1
• Step chords in minor
• sus4 and sus2
• Mother scales, daughter scales: the modes
• pentatonic
• four-note speeches
• chord reversals
• Base camp reached
• 2 Extended harmonics
• intervals
• Tensions: Options and Alterations
• chord names
• Chord functions
• slash chords
• The World in Minor - Part 2
• Function of chord tones
• What are voicings?
• voice leading
• Third Relationships and Chords of Representation
• Avoid Notes
• Overview scales and chords
• 3 Basic Functional Harmonics
• Basic functional - modal functional
• tonics
• subdominant
• dominant
• primary dominant
• Dominant seventh chord stability
• sex reversal cadence
• fallacy
• Tritone substitution (substitute dominant)
• SubV7 and Mixo#11
• intermediate dominant
• II-V
• secondary dominant
• Free dominant functions
• Special dominant functions
• dominant chains
• Overview of all dominant functions
• Decreased seventh chord
• clichéd sequences
• Conclusion and outlook
• 4 Modal Harmonics
• That's how it all began
• Basic orientation of modal harmonics
• The Sound Of Scales
• Modal cliché sequences, modal composition
• 5 Modal Interchange
• The fourth element
• 6 blues
• My Blues
• Origin of the Blues
• Harmonics and form
• Melody of the Blues
• Blues scales
• improvisational concepts
• 7 Improvisation
• Improvisation - Solo playing
• lick
• Improvisation concepts for solo playing
• Further concepts
• bebop
• superimposing
• Analysis: Solo "Hotel California"
• 8 Analyses
• Harmonic analysis
• 9 Appendix