Hi everyone, I just released a new bass exercise for Beginner Level Harmony. You can access it by going to Classroom, French Harmony Exercises, Beginner, Bass Exercise #2. This exercise is specifically designed to work on the 'False Relation of the Tritone,' which is a very important sub-topic in French harmony treaties. It is too advanced for absolute beginner level, but for those who want to move towards orchestration and fugue, you must master it. I will be releasing a YouTube video very soon on this topic, but if you want to try the exercise on your own, go here: https://www.skool.com/composition/classroom/d3e5b616?md=bf6adadb268c4a279b5f48d1b55d64be. Answer keys are now up as well. Best of luck! -Barney

Hi everyone, just a reminder of the supreme importance of learning the soprano clef, in order to both read instruments in A, but also instruments in Bb in certain exceptional cases. Watch in full here: https://youtu.be/crJT_GC8KlY. Have a good day, Barney

Hi everyone, here is a promotional short from the 6 Week Harmony Course for the Absolute Beginner, in which you learn how to use the scale degrees to quickly figure out the functions of the notes. In this short, we look at the 3-2-1 in soprano, for root position chords, which has only one possibility. Enjoy! -Barney

Good evening, I just released a new YouTube video for sequences that modulate. Check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4APf6kju6r8. Make sure to reivew the Rules for Root Position Chords before getting started. (Click on Classroom.). -Barney

Hi everyone, here is a short from a shorts series that I made from a summer video for Fugue for Composers called Suspensions in Bach. The genius of Bach is that he justified a dissonance, by changing the harmony for the resolution. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/bqRRcnSrzcI