Friday, December 21, 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012

Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro for Ipad

 
Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro for iPad is now available at the App Store
The Mapping Tonal Harmony app is an incredible tool for songwriters, composers, students and teachers. From Jazz & Classical to Pop, Rock & New Age music, this app will take your writing and understanding of tonal music to the next level.

The volumes in the Mapping Tonal Harmony collection have been envisioned as auxiliary material in the study of Tonal Harmony. The main objective of these books is to provide the student, teachers, composers and/or songwriters with a tool that will aid them in hearing, analyzing, foreseeing and composing harmonic progressions without struggle, in all keys alike.



Three tutorials have been released to get you started with the App.

 




Saturday, December 10, 2011

Reconstructing Beethoven's Für Elise
25 Studies on Beethoven's Bagatelle in A minor.
mDecks Focus Series

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Learn or Teach how to play
Fur Elise in 25 easy studies.









Für Elise, one of the most famous solo piano compositions in music history, written by composer Ludwig van Beethoven which still inspires millions of people to take up the piano, is now available as part of our Focus Series, a practical approach to learning and teaching Beethoven's Fur Elise.
Reconstructing Beethoven’s Für Elise consists of 25 studies that’ll help you attain the theoretical and technical skills to perform the famous Fur Elise, a bagatelle in A minor by L.van Beethoven.
Each study was designed to practice, understand and conquer a specific passage of the piece.
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Included in this book:
Form analysis- An explanation and analysis of the piece's form and structure.
25 Studies - Meter studies over 3/8 (key signature of the piece). A minor Studies (scales, harmonic progressions). Preparation studies (preparing elements from the bagatelle such as theme, accompaniment, anacrusis, arpeggios technique, pedal technique and more)

Original Score and Bagatelle Variation - At the end of the book, you will find Beethoven's original version and a new alternative version, entirely based on the original composition, form and structure, a "What-if-Beethoven-whould-have...?" version.

Listen to the Bagatelle Variation:
"Not For Elise" from not L.V.B.


About the Focus series
The books in this series consist of a set of studies created to develop the fundamental, technical and theoretical skills to conquer a specific piece, or group of pieces, targeting all challenges involved in said piece, using a practical approach.
In each of these books, the student will learn about the composer's approach to composition, harmonic language, and the process used by said composer to write the piece under study.