Michael Rendish – Getting Inside Harmony 1
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Getting Inside Harmony 1 will help you with the next step: learning harmony so that you hear and recognize chord progressions and use them creatively in your playing and writing.
Getting Inside Harmony 1
You’ve been in music for years. You know how to play, but you’re ready for more. Getting Inside Harmony 1 will help you with the next step: learning harmony so that you hear and recognize chord progressions and use them creatively in your playing and writing. Through a combination of activities—listening, thinking, visualizing, vocalizing, writing, and playing—you’ll open your ears and deepen your understanding of the inner workings of harmony in a broad range of contemporary styles. You’ll find that you learn songs more easily and can transpose them on sight. And you’ll be able to equip yourself with the best chord scale choices for arranging and improvising. Mastering the mechanics of harmony’s chord progression patterns is an indispensable tool for both players and writers, and will help improvisers, composers, and arrangers deepen their understanding of the inner workings of a broad range of contemporary styles including standard tunes, popular music and jazz.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Recognize different chord types and standard chord progression patterns
- Find the notes that work best (as melody and as harmony) with each chord in the progression
- Create keyboard accompaniment voicings that will allow you to learn and experiment with any chord progression.
- Improvise effectively from chord to chord
- Spot and repair faulty or incomplete chord progressions often found on many lead sheets
- Modify the chord progression in a way that will enhance the character of the music and reflect your own musical expression
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Foundation 1: Building Major Scales
Lesson 2 Foundation 2: Exploring the Scale Neighborhood
Lesson 3 Diatonic Triads
Lesson 4 Triads: Open vs. Closed
Lesson 5 Building Seventh Chords
Lesson 6 Seventh Chords: Open vs. Closed
Lesson 7 Building Altered Chords
Lesson 8 Working from the Ribs: Building Diatonic Chord Scales
Lesson 9 Exploring Relative Do, Part 1
Lesson 10 Exploring Relative Do, Part 2
Lesson 11 Recognizing Diatonic Chords
Lesson 12 Keyboard Voicing and Voice Leading
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
This course does not have any prerequisites.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Software Requirements
- Finale NotePad, Finale (full version), or MuseScore
- A basic audio recording tool that will allow you to record yourself and save the recording in MP3 format. You will have a tool to use for this purpose inside the learning environment. Alternatively, you can use software like Audacity (PC) or GarageBand (Mac)
Hardware Requirements
- A piano keyboard
- A built-in microphone or an external microphone plugged directly into your computer (via built in ports or an external audio interface)
Instructors
Author & Instructor
Michael Rendish is the former Assistant Chair of Berklee College of Music’s Film Scoring Department. A gifted performer and award-winning writer, he has composed, orchestrated, and conducted some thirty film scores, including Faces of Freedom, A Place of Dreams, and Yorktown, and the five-part PBS series America by Design. He was the composer for Academy Award nominee, The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America, and arranger and guest conductor of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra of the 50th Jubilee Concert in honor of the King of Thailand. In his more than thirty-five years at Berklee, he has been continually active in developing much of the world’s finest talent in contemporary popular music. He was the founding chair of Berklee’s Harmony Department, and has authored and taught courses at all levels of traditional, contemporary, and jazz arranging/composition. He was also the founding chair of the electronic music program, the major that introduced music synthesis to Berklee. Michael’s passion for harmony in contemporary music is the driving force behind the course “Getting Inside Harmony.”
Instructor
Steve Rochinski is a Professor in the Harmony Department at Berklee College of Music. An accomplished guitarist, recording artist, and internationally known performer and clinician, Steve has received numerous grants and awards including a 1993 Jazz Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for private study with Tal Farlow.
Before coming to Berklee, Steve toured for many years, and in his travels has worked with the Candoli Brothers, Tal Farlow, Attila Zoller, Jimmy Raney, Tim Hagans, Pat Harbison, Gary Foster, Hank Marr, Brad Goode, Scott Lee, Joe Hunt, Chuck Redd, Richard Evans, and Tony Tillman. In 1995, Steve released his critically acclaimed debut CD Until Further Notice (LineOut Music/North Country Dist.). He currently records for Jardis Records, Germany’s leading jazz guitar label. His releases include A Bird in the Hand (JRCD9922) and Otherwise (JRCD20033).
He is the author of the award-winning The Jazz Style of Tal Farlow: The Elements of Bebop Guitar and The Motivic Basis for Jazz Guitar Improvisation (Hal Leonard Corp.). In November 2001, Steve’s life and career was featured in the 7th anniversary issue of the internationally renowned magazine for jazz guitar fans, Just Jazz Guitar (No. 29, November 2001). Steve will be profiled in the next edition of the book The Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution, Players, and Personalities Since 1900 by Maurice Summerfield (Ashley Mark Publishing) and the 2005 Edition of Who’s Who in America (Marquis Publishing).
Instructor
Keyboardist Amy Bellamy received her Master’s of Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After relocating to Boston, MA in 2002, Ms. Bellamy joined the Sam Kininger Band (of Soulive and Lettuce) and toured extensively throughout the US, culminating with their critically acclaimed 2010 album release entitled Anthem (BMG Japan.) Ms. Bellamy and her husband, bassist Aaron Bellamy (The A-Beez) have led a well established 16 year Tuesday night residency at Boston’s beloved Wally’s Jazz Café.
The A-Beez released their debut album Never Going Back in 2015, and their 2nd album Say Goodbye was released to a sold-out audience in Boston in March of 2018. Both albums by The A-Beez showcase Amy and Aaron’s strengths as songwriters, lyricists, arrangers and producers.
Over the last decade, Ms. Bellamy has performed with Chaka Khan (for President Bill Clinton) Terri Lyne Carrington, G Love and the Juice, The Nth Power, Oleta Adams, Res, Club D’elf, Cody Chesnutt, Martin Luther, Shing02, the Harlem Gospel Choir, Bruce Bartlett, Akrobatik, Mr Lif and many more. She has shared countless bills with major artists such as Parliament Funkadelic, Morris Day and the Time, Bootsy
Collins, Chick Corea and many more. As a classical accompanist, Ms. Bellamy has appeared on multiple European tours with notable performances at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France and St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy.
Ms. Bellamy joined the Faculty of Berklee College of Music as an Assistant Professor in the Harmony Department in the summer of 2016.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Getting Inside Harmony 1 can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
- Songwriting Advanced Professional Certificate
- Theory, Harmony & Ear Training Advanced Professional Certificate
Associated Degree Majors
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Production
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Business
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Music Studies (Create Your Own Major)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting
- Bachelor’s Degree in Guitar
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting and Producing Music
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