1. Welcome
2. The Three levels of a Song
3. About the Exercises
4. Keyboard fingering Rules
5. Music Notation for Other Instruments
6. Lesson Material
7. Songs for Chord Analysis
8. Reference Material

Lesson 1 - Tones, Semitones and Symmetric scales

1. Tones & Semitones
2. The Chromatic scale
3. The Whole-tone scale
4. 8-note Symmetric scales
5. Quiz and Quiz Answers
6. Ear tests 1- 3 and Answers
7. Lesson Material

Lesson 2 - Tetrachords and the Major scale

1. The purpose of scales
2. Tetrachords
3. The Major scale
4. Quiz and Quiz Answers
5. Ear tests 4 & 5 and Answers
6. Lesson Material

Lesson 3 - Intervals of the Major scale

1. Introduction
2. Classification of Intervals
3. Perfect Intervals
4. Major Intervals
5. Compound Intervals
6. Ear Training
7. Quiz and Quiz Answers
8. Ear tests 6 & 7 and Answers
9. Lesson Material

Lesson 4 - Other Intervals

1. Altering Perfect Intervals
2. Altering Major Intervals
3. Altering Minor Intervals
4. The five Interval Qualities
5. How to Identify any Interval
6. Interval Inversions
7. Symmetry
8. Ear Training
9. Quiz and Quiz Answers
10. Ear tests 8 & 9 and Answers
11. Lesson Material

Lesson 5 - Triad Chord Qualities

1. Definition and Function
2. The Major Triad Chord
3. The Minor Triad Chord
4. The Diminished Triad Chord
5. The Augmented Triad Chord
6. The four Chord Qualities
7. The Triad Chords Ruler
8. Quiz and Quiz Answers
9. Ear Tests 10 & 11 and Answers
10. Lesson Material

Lesson 6 - Triad Chord Inversions

1. Triad Chord Inversions
2. Augmented Triad Inversions
3. Where to play chords on the keyboard
4. Scale-tone triads of the major scale
5. Song Practice
6. Quiz and Quiz Answers
7. Ear tests 12 - 14 and Answers
8. Lesson Material

Lesson 7 - Basic 12 bar Blues

1. Origin of the Blues
2. Form
3. Basic Blues in C
4. Basic Blues harmony
5. Velocity Blues (song)
6. The Blues scale
7. Bb- and Eb- instruments
8. Quiz and Quiz Answers
9. Ear test 15 and Answers
10. Lesson Material

Lesson 8 - Seventh Chord Qualities

1. General Description
2. The Major 7th chord
3. The Dominant 7th chord
4. The Minor 7th chord
5. The Half Diminished chord
6. The Diminished 7th chord
7. The Five 7th Chord Qualities
8. Related chords
9. The 7th Chords Ruler
10. Quiz and Quiz Answers
11. Ear tests 16 - 18 and Answers
12. Lesson Material

Lesson 9 - The Overtone Series

1. The Overtone Series
2. Some Characteristics
3. What the Ear perceives
4. Experiments
5. The Perfect Intervals
6. Grandparent - Parent - Child
7. Quiz and Quiz Answers
8. Lesson Material

Lesson 10 - The Circle of Fifths

1. Our sub-conscious acoustic association
2. From Unstable to Stable
3. The Circle of Fifths
4. Applications of the Circle of Fifths
5. Examples in Classical music
6. Examples in Jazz
7. Practice
8. Quiz and Quiz Answers
9. Lesson Material

Lesson 11 - The Pentatonic Scales

1. The Origin of Scales
2. The Major Pentatonic Scale
3. Its relation to the Circle of Fifths
4. Pentatonic Scale Practice
5. The Minor Pentatonic Scale
6. The Blues Scale
7. Blues Riffs
8. Quiz and Quiz Answers
9. Ear tests 19 & 20 and Answers
10. Lesson Material

Lesson 12 - Seventh Chords 2 : Inversions, Scale-tone chords

1. 7th Chord Inversions
2. Practice for keyboard Players
3. Embellished Blues
4. Scale-tone 7th Chords
5. The twelve Chord Families
6. About Chord Function Analysis
7. Quiz and Quiz Answers
8. Lesson Material

Lesson 13 - The Scale-tone 7th Chord Progression

1. Pentatonic / Major scale Relationship
2. The Circle of Fifths Perspective
3. Scale-tone Chord Progression
4. Practical Application
5. Keyboard chord voicings
6. Quiz and Quiz Answers
7. Lesson Material

Lesson 14 - Modes of the Major scale

1. What is a Mode ?
2. The ancient Greek modes
3. Modern approach to the Greek modes
4. The Dorian mode
5. The Phrygian mode
6. The Lydian mode
7. The Mixolydian mode
8. The Aeolian mode
9. The Locrian mode
10. Quiz and Quiz Answers
11. Ear test 21 and Answers
12. Lesson Material

Lesson 15 - Chord - Scale Combinations for Improvisation

1. Combining Chords and Modes
2. Chord Function
3. Most common Scales for Improvisation
4. Scale for the Diminished 7th Chord
5. Quiz and Quiz Answers
6. Lesson Material

Lesson 16 - The IIm7 - V7 - Imaj7 Chord Progression

1. The IIm7 - V7 - Imaj7 Progression
2. Chord - Scale Combinations
3. IIm7 - V7 Chord Substitutions
4. The II - V - I Blues
5. IIm7 -V7 - Imaj7 Practice Routine
6. Quiz and Quiz Answers
7. Ear test 22 and Answers
8. Lesson Material

Lesson 17 - The IIø - V7 - Im7 Chord Progression

1. The Natural minor scale
2. The Harmonic minor scale
3. The II ø - V7 - Im Progression
4. Practice
5. The Harmonic minor Scale Ruler
6. Quiz and Quiz Answers
7. Lesson Material

Lesson 18 - Minor scales Overview

1. The Melodic minor scale
2. Five minor 7-note scales
3. Uses of minor scales
4. Im - ImM7 - Im7 - VIø - bVImaj7 - V7
5. When You're not there (song)
6. Quiz and Quiz Answers
7. Ear test 23 and Answers
8. Lesson Material

Lesson 19 - Chord Substitutions

1. The Essential Chord tones
2. Skeleton Chords
3. Chord Plurality
4. Tritone Chord Substitution
5. Chromatic Chord Progressions
6. The IIm7 - bII7 - Imaj7 Progressions
7. Quiz and Quiz Answers
8. Ear test 24 and Answers
9. Lesson Material

   Appendix - Double Tritone Substitution

Lesson 20 - Other Chords, modes of the Melodic minor scale

1. Major and minor 6th chords
2. Augmented 7th chord
3. Suspended 7th chord
4. The Altered Dominant chord
5. Modes of the Melodic minor scale
6. Minor Blues
7. Quiz and Quiz Answers
8. Ear test 25 - 27 and Answers
9. Lesson Material