Monthly Archives: September 2015

For the past two weeks, I have been teaching my Music Theory II students chord progressions – ‘50’s chord progressions. We began simply with the I IV V I progression in a twelve-bar blues pattern and then advanced to the I vi ii V I progression, popularized in tunes like Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm, Hoagy Carmichael’s Heart and Soul or Blue Moon. After thoroughly explaining the math behind the music and having the students notate the progressions in their workbooks,…..

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