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	<title>My Piano Riffs &#187; Harmonic Concepts</title>
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	<description>tips &#38; tricks for the rhythmically &#38; harmonically-challenged</description>
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		<title>Can You Spare a Chord or two or more, Please?: Borrowed Chords or Modal Interchange</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back!  And I need to borrow something&#8230;.No worries, I&#8217;m referring to our little bag of harmonic tricks. I hope by now you have gone through the diatonic triads and 7ths of both the major and minor scales (all three variations). In this post, I&#8217;m going to show you how you can spice up your]]></description>
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		<title>Harmonic Rhythm &#8211; The Natural Flow of Chord Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm&#8230;the blog post title sounds like a mashup of my two favorite musical elements! Well, it is&#8230;but leaning more towards the rhythmic aspects of when and where chords move. In other words, harmonic rhythm refers to the rate of chord change or how often one chord progresses to another. Most songs or compositions are written in]]></description>
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		<title>Analyses of Minor Key Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that the coming Chinese New Year has brought some inspiration to my current blog post! Well, to be specific it&#8217;s the little ditty which I know only as &#8220;Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni-ah! Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni!&#8221; And the reason I&#8217;m writing about this is because]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Major Scale&#8217;s Little Cousins&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; the Minor scales! They might be named &#8220;minor,&#8221; but there is nothing small or insignificant about the minor scales, which are closely related to the major scales. In fact, without the flavor of the three main minor scales and their diatonic chords, the music we know today will be quite bland and one dimensional. Jazz]]></description>
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		<title>Wanna Play Pop, R&amp;B, or Jazz? Then You Must Know the Diatonic 7th Chords Too!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops! That looks like my longest article title yet! But it got you looking, right? Cool Now that you know what the major scale diatonic triads are (check out my post on diatonic triads here), it&#8217;s time to expand the wee little triad to include it&#8217;s cooler, modern-sounding fourth note, that is to stack another]]></description>
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		<title>7 Important Chords Every Musician Should Know</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And these are the Seven Diatonic Chords of a Key! What are diatonic chords? I am always struck by how many musicians are still completely confused or clueless about the importance of diatonic chords and how chords are related to each other within a key. Simply put, diatonic chords are chords that belong and come]]></description>
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