What you'll find
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Every scale, not just the modes. The natural leap after Illustrated Modes: I go from the fourteen modes you know to exploring every scale that exists, including the ones almost no one ever teaches.
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Unconventional harmonies. Sounds and combinations that rarely show up if you stay inside the usual scales, presented in a way you can actually understand and use when composing.
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Structuring the information in your head. The heart of the book: a visual way to organize so many scales so that, at a glance, you know what each one does and how to connect them, instead of memorizing scattered lists.
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No sheet music, no academic jargon. Just like the rest of the collection: diagrams, colors and arrows. If you recognize chords and follow the arrows, you'll get everything out of it, on whatever instrument you play.
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Example apps and videos. Like my other books, it includes interactive apps and example videos so you can hear and bring every explanation to life.
I'm a Visual Person.
I realized that many of us need to see information visually. However, there is very little music theory literature that explains complex chord modulations and progressions with shapes, arrows, and colors.
In these books, ways are presented to literally see harmony and, on every page, creative and visual composition is encouraged.
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Book details
- Author
- Brian Callipari
- Format
- PDF (digital book)
- Pages
- 154
- Languages
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Turkish, and Japanese
- Who it's for
- It's a standalone book: it builds on the idea behind Illustrated Modes, but you don't need to have read that one to make the most of it.
What musicians are saying
Hey Brian, just wanted to reach out. I studied music composition at Berklee and I genuinely wish I had your books back then. Not because my professors were bad, but because your visual approach would have cut my learning curve in HALF. Picked up Tensions Illustrated last week and it's brilliant. The way you map out tensions over chord types is something I haven't seen anyone else do this clearly. Respect man.
Brian I have to be honest with you. I almost didn't buy your books because I've wasted SO much money on music theory courses and books that promised everything and delivered nothing. Bought Harmony Illustrated on a whim and I literally sat there with my mouth open. After 20+ years of playing guitar I finally see the bigger picture. This is not an exaggeration. You cracked the code man
THE COLORS. Thats what gets me. The way you use color to show relationships between notes and chords... my brain just GETS it now. Bought all of them btw 😅
Bro I showed your Harmony Illustrated to my guitar teacher and he literally ordered a copy for himself on the spot 😂 said he wished he had something like this when he was studying. Thats the best review I can give you honestly
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