Theory On Tap
Table of Contents

Introduction Rick Bellinger
Lesson 1: Intervals Rick Bellinger
Lesson 2: What are Triads? Rick Bellinger
Lesson 3 Part I: Major Scales and other Phenomena I Will Pirkle
Lesson 3 Part II: Major Scales and other Phenomena II Will Pirkle
Lesson 4: Scales and Modes Greg Brouelette
Lesson 4 Part II: Chords of the Major Scale Rick Bellinger
Lesson 5: The Circle of Fifths Vance Gloster
Lesson 6: Jazz Progressions: Your Friend, the Two-Five Jeff Jetton
Lesson 7: Pentatonic Scales and the Blues Greg Broulette
Lesson 8: Minor Scales Grant D. Green
Lesson 9: Minor Chords Grant D. Green
Lesson 10: More Jazz Progressions Jeff Jetton
Lesson 11: Polychords Vance Gloster
Lesson 12: Symmetrical Scales, Synthetic and Other Random Junk Rick Bellinger, Will Pirkle
Feb 2025

This set of lessons has been around for thirty years and is just now getting an incremental refurb with new diagrams, links with supplemental information (wow... links! the future is now!), and has a new home on github.

If you have some lesson contributions/ideas, comments, requests , questions, etc.. You are welcome to contact me at mike.hoegeman@gmail.com

--mike


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