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Bundle Summary
In Action-Music Harmony 1, learn how the octatonic scale is one of the most commonly-used resources in classic action music and the power of its versatility in three lessons. Exercises are included in this course. Action-Music Harmony 2 focuses on the three main scales of classic action music: octatonic, hexatonic, and Hungarian minor. Learn how to extract sophisticated action writing from them with easy-to-understand techniques like planing of chords through a scale and mixing the action scales together.
Action-Music Harmony 1 – Breakdown
Lesson 1 – Octatonic Harmonies
- Octatonic Scales
- Overview
- Possible Chords
- Traditional Chords from Octatonic Scales
- Major Chords
- Minor Chords
- The Alpha Chord and Its Dissonant Subsets
- Overview
- Large Subset Chords – 5 or 6 notes
- Major and Minor Subset Chords – with one dissonance
- Atonal Subset Chords – 3 notes
Lesson 2 – Drawing Octatonic Materials Out
- Octatonic Melodies
- The Whole-Tone Octatonic Mode
- The (0134) Chord
- Connective Scale Runs
- Dyads Composed of 3rds
- Drawing Out Octatonic Harmony
- Repeated Chord with Octatonic Melody
- Transposed Chord with Octatonic Melody
- Multiple Octatonic Scales
- Successive Scales
- Simultaneous Scales
Lesson 3 – Advanced Octatonic Techniques
- Combining Octatonic Elements
- Melody/Bass Intervals
- Unmoving Bass
- Moving Bass
- Melodic Bass
- Melody and Accompaniment
- Freely-Written Chords
- Multiple-Strand Accompaniments
- Melody/Bass Intervals
- Varying Octatonic Harmonies
- Through Motives
- Through a Common Subset
- Octatonic Elements at Larger Scales
- Through Returning Music
- Through Returning Intervals
Action-Music Harmony 2 – Breakdown
Lesson 4 – Hexatonic and Hungarian Minor Scales
- Hexatonic Scales
- Overview
- Tonal Chords, 3 notes (major and minor)
- Tonal Chords, 4 notes (mM7 and augM7)
- Atonal Chords, 5 and 6 notes
- Melodies and Flourishes
- Hungarian Minor Scales
- Overview + Tonal Chords (3 and 4 notes)
- Main Chord, 5 notes
- Tonal Chords, 5 notes (add2 chords)
- Atonal Chords, 5 to 7 notes
- Atonal Chords, 3 notes, (the (014) chord)
- Melodies and Flourishes
Lesson 5 – Planing and Pedal Point
- Planing as a Concept
- Overview
- Typical Planed Chords
- Planing a Chord through a Scale
- Minor Scales
- Modes
- Octatonic Melodies Harmonized by Planed Chords
- Minor Chords
- Major Chords
- With One Scale Note Changed
- Planing and Pedal Points
- Combined Melody-Bass “Chords”
- Increasing the Dissonance between Planed Chords and Pedals
Lesson 6 – Combining Scales Together
- Juxtaposing Action Scales
- Octatonic + Hungarian Minor
- Hexatonic + Hungarian Minor
- Octatonic + Hexatonic
- Mixing Action Scales with Non-Scale Notes
- Octatonic + 1 Note
- Octatonic Melody Harmonized by Chords of a Single Type
- Simultaneous Action Scales
- Octatonic as Gap Filler for Hexatonic
- Harmonies from One Scale Organized by Another
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