Hi everyone, here is a promotional short from the 6 Week Harmony Course for the Absolute Beginner, in which you learn how to use the scale degrees to quickly figure out the functions of the notes. In this short, we look at the 3-2-1 in soprano, for root position chords, which has only one possibility. Enjoy! -Barney

Good evening, I just released a new YouTube video for sequences that modulate. Check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4APf6kju6r8. Make sure to reivew the Rules for Root Position Chords before getting started. (Click on Classroom.). -Barney

Hi everyone, here is a short from a shorts series that I made from a summer video for Fugue for Composers called Suspensions in Bach. The genius of Bach is that he justified a dissonance, by changing the harmony for the resolution. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/bqRRcnSrzcI

Hi everyone, the hardest part about French Harmony Exercises, is 1) getting the important cadences, and 2) getting the outer voice (the bass, if given a soprano exercise). The middle voices should be a lot easier, but here is an excerpt from the 6-Week Harmony Course (soon to be released) on how to get them asap. Best of luck, Barney

Hi everyone, here is another teaser from the 6 week harmony course that I am building, for the absolute beginner. Best of luck, Barney