In the eighth video of our Elements Of Music series. Music Wizard founder Chris Salter discusses using the chromatic scale as a map and reveals an interesting secret which helps us understand the structure of music. Hierarchy of consonance vs dissonance in interval...
In the fourth video in our Elements Of Music series, Music Wizard founder Chris Salter shares how the number 12 reveals interesting ways to look at and listen to music, and the correlation of music and math. a) Western classical harmony, especially since Bach, uses...
In the fifth video of our Elements Of Music series, Music Wizard Founder Chris Salter discusses ways the understanding of language applies to learning music. Music can be organized and self reflective, and that order can be called a language. Many parallels with human...
One of the singular developments of Western music was to prefer flexibility and an integrated harmonic system over pure harmonies. Bach understood the ramifications and laid out the possibilities for the ages....
In the late middle ages western harmony started on a journey that would take it in a completely separate direction to that of the music of other parts of the world. It discovered chords, and, over the next seven centuries, began to unlock their harmonic possibilities....
