Composers & performers: I released a new video on YouTube, in which I talk about how to quicly get the middle voices done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNX4j3DrZY. If you want to work on this immediately, then go to "Classroom," French Harmony Exercies, Model Bass Exercise, and go to Practice the Middle Voices, and then check your answers. I am currently working on a 6 week harmony course for absolute beginners, in which we will be focusing on hearing the outer voices first, so if you can ensure that this final step, getting the middle voices, is 'assez facile pour vous,' as we say in French, relatively easy to do, then you will be in good shape. Have a nice day, Barney

Composers & performers, I have updated Classroom, with "Preparation for Fugue," a course that is specifically designed for those of you who are trying to compose fugue, but are feeling hindered by your technique. This is French Harmony Exercsises, root position chords, but specifically targeted to most prepare you for fugue. This series will feature suspensions, modulations, and sequences. Bass Exercise #1 is up, and if you want to make sure you are on the right track, I have added a hint sheet, with a few notes filled in. I am making an official tutorial series, in shorts format, for this exercise. If you are able to finish the exercise (either the soprano is filled out completely, or all 4 voices completed), you can send it to me before Monday, July 13th, 9:30pm EST, and I will give you personalized feedback. Otherwise, you can wait until the official tutorial is released. If submitting for all 4 voices, make sure that there are no parallel fifths & octaves, and that the deceptive cadence was properly voiced. Have a nice weekend, Barney

Hi everyone, I just released a composition-focused video on the YouTube Channel for Composition & Its Allies: https://youtu.be/k6jBP908vOc For those of you who are newer to the channel, you may not have heard be talk about composition itself before. The main things are the rehearsals, performances, and recordings. In this video I espeically go into detail on the value of a rehearsal. At the beginning, I re-explain what Ecriture Musicale is (which we already familiar with thanks to French Harmony Exercises), and throughout the video, I explain why composition must be purused in and of itself, independent of écriture musicale, though it does help with composition from the back end.

Happy Fourth of July! Composers & performers, I just released the first 3 steps from Lesson 1 from A SOPRANO THAT MODULATES FROM RELATIVE MINOR TO RELATIVE MAJOR. There are two versions: a guided tutorial, and the self-study version. Both can be found by clicking on , "Classroom," and then, "French Harmony Exercises," and then choosing from the pages on the left-hand side (TUTORIALS or STUDY GUIDE). The guided tutorial is where I walk you through each step to realizing the exercise. Lesson 1 is getting the last phrase. The self-study is where I tell you what the homework is. and proivide the answers, with no explanations. I suggest choosing the one that best suits your learning style: the self-study method will be free, and the guided tutorial will be paid once it becomes available in full (the first 3 steps of Lesson 1 will remain free as part of the trial version). If you want to realize the exercise in full, you can review the attached revised course outline. The entire module for Soprano Exercise #1, from Level 2 French Harmony Exercises, is divided into 4 lessons. I am currently recording and editing the remaining lessons. When you open up the revised course outline, you will notice a few items marked in red: these are additions that I am considering adding, in order to improve the learning experience. I am leaning very heavily towards adding a quiz at the end of each lesson, in which you will have to re-realize the passage in question in a different key, using either memory or realizing on the spot. This is of course to show you what you have already forgotten or did not properly learn within the lesson, so you can diagnose problems SOONER rather than later. I have not finalized this part, and I also do not want the tutorial to move so slowly that you lose momentum, and get stuck on the details. Part of mastering basic harmony is encountering the same problems in new contexts (one of the reasons I am leaning heavily on a quiz in a different key), which will occur once you move on to a new exercise and start to notice commonalities ACROSS KEYS.

Hi everyone, I am very excited to announce that I will be publishing the first guided tutorial on Skool for French Harmony Exercises. This is for a soprano that modulates. You may have seen the generalized tutorials on YouTube, this will be an in-depth, professional level. You can look at the pdf to get a feel for what we will cover. Let me know if you have any questions! -Barney