Modal Harmony in Jazz Composition
The modes have provided fertile musical soil for jazz composers since the late 1950s. In effect, modes can be viewed as displacements of the major scale.
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Funk and R&B Guitar Tutorial with Thaddeus Hogarth
Berklee Online guitar instructor Thaddeus Hogarth demonstrates the importance of the pentatonic scale in funk and R&B music.
Voice Leading for Guitar
In jazz, you will encounter only seven kinds of diatonic seventh chords (from major, melodic minor, or harmonic minor keys). This article will show you how to voice lead smoothly and easily between these chords and their variations.
Music Modes: Major and Minor Modal Scales in Music Theory
Learn how to master the major and minor music modes with this excerpt from Berklee Online’s Music Theory 201 course by Paul Schmeling.
Basic Funk for Drums
In this lesson for drummers, learn how to play basic funk beats with notation by Berklee Online percussion instructor Larry Finn.
