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Harmony

Harmony is the study of what chords do to each other. Not which ones are allowed, but where each one pulls and what happens when you refuse to follow. Every page here plays the idea with and without the thing it is about.

Start here

Function before names.

Read Harmonic Function first. Once you hear that the same chord means different things in different keys, the rest of this pillar stops being vocabulary and starts being useful.

Jump straight inPress the triangle to hear it, the name to read it

The foundation

how chords get their meaning

Going outside the key

colour, borrowing and travel

The written tradition

where the rules came from

Keep going

The other sections

Everything on this site sits in one of these, in the order they are meant to be learned.