SkillShare Romantic Harmony 101 By Josh Cook [TUTORiAL]

This course is intended to help musicians better understand the fundamentals of Romantic Harmony. If you're already comfortable working with chord progressions, and want to further expand your progressions so that they are more complex and nuanced, then this course is for you! The works of Chopin, Liszt, Shumann, Schubert, Rachmoninoff, Tchaikovsky and so many other great Romantic composers have given us plenty of advanced harmonic concepts to study. This course will take the fundamental ideas that are most common between these composers and offer them in such a way that you can easily understand how to approach Romantic harmony. While at this stage we are not analyzing Romantic pieces specifically (as this is more advanced and will be covered within a future course), we simply start with the unique chords that are most commonly used within the Romantic era. Chord progressions using these chords will be illustrated, and other concepts such as pedal tones and chord voicings will be taught to tie the concepts together. This course is not ONLY for musicians looking to compose Romantic pieces. I've personally used these harmonic tricks within hip-hop and EDM productions, as well as plenty of orchestral scores. Once you know how these chords and progressions sound, you can use them as you see fit when you are trying to evoke the inquisitive moods of Romantic music. So if you're looking to take your chords and progressions to the next level and learn the tricks of Chopin and so many other great musicians, then jump into the first class where we hit the ground running with studying the iconic minor 7 flat 5 chord. I'll catch you in the first class!