Music Theory Lessons Online

Popular pages

• The Diminished Chord (Theory and Application) | Simplifying Theory

  Resulting chord: Cº The most used symbol for the diminished chord is a little circle above the letter of the chord: C °. But some authors also use the “dim” notation: Cdim An easy way to think of the ...

• Augmented, Diminished and Perfect Intervals | Simplifying Theory

  Learn here the definitions and basic principles about augmented, diminished and perfect intervals to locate yourself in music.

• All about Pentatonic Scale | Simplifying Theory

  Learn here the concepts about pentatonic scale: minor pentatonic scale, major pentatonic scale, examples, exercises, shapes and how to use this in any song!

• How to Read Sheet Music (for Beginners) | Simplifying Theory

  Whoever wants to know and understand music probably dreams of learning sheet music, after all this is the most complete musical writing in existence. Furthermore, when a musician confesses not knowin...

• Learning Reharmonization (6 Techniques) | Simplifying Theory

  Reharmonizing is to modify the harmonic structure of a song. To achieve this, the musicians work on several concepts, many of which we have already seen here in this website. How to reharmonize a son...

• Rhythm Theory | Simplifying Theory

  Rhythm – Theory Rhythm is a very important element for any musician. But the vast majority ends up leaving this study aside, because they think that rhythm is something innate to human beings: “One wh...