The Fundamentals of Harmony · a course by Andrew Sheron
Most music theory is a history lesson in disguise. This isn't. Starting from a single vibrating string, we derive the deep language of musical harmony.
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Problem
Most music courses force students to learn naming conventions invented by people and religious institutions centuries ago.
Many musicians end up stuck; fluent enough to use the words, but never shown any explanation as to where the words come from.
The approach
This course strips away the baggage and works from the objective, physical underpinnings of sound. We interact with playable digital canvases to discover how frequency, the harmonic series and musical intervals emerge on their own, and watch a vibrating string divide itself into octaves and fifths without anyone telling it to.
Nothing is asserted. Everything is derived, from the ground up.
What you get
Leave textbooks behind. Harmony learned intuitively through sleek, playable visualizations, in a browser, on any device.
Understand harmony from the ground up, and see how it emerges in nature rather than from a rulebook.
Pay once. As the course expands with new lessons, interactive features and materials, you get every update at no extra cost.
A high-resolution digital download of the poster, included with the course. Looks great as a lock screen.
Lesson 1 · free, right now
One click a second. Speed up the clicks and around twenty per second they stop sounding like rhythm and become pitch.
Then a string. Pluck it and find the other notes hiding inside it. By the end of Lesson 1, harmony has emerged from zero assertions.
Runs in the browser, makes sound. Nothing to install, no instrument required - though it helps to have one nearby.
About twenty minutes. Sound on, or headphones.
The 9 lessons
6 of 9 are ready today. The rest are released as they are finished, and are already yours.
What it costs
A single purchase gets you access to all of the lessons currently available, as well as all future lessons, updates, additions and supplemental materials to come, such as bonus videos and references.
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Questions
No. There is no notation anywhere in this course.
Nothing. Lesson 1 starts at "what is a sound." If you already know your theory, the later lessons will still be new to you.
Twenty minutes to an hour a lesson, depending how much you play with the demos. Playing with the demos is the point.
Yes. Every lesson works in portrait and landscape, and makes sound either way.
Yes. No cohort, no schedule, no expiry.
The apps are tools; this is the argument behind them. The apps.
That's how many sounds there are on The Color Tree!