Contemporary Music Harmony

This one-year online course focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of harmony and chord progressions in today's popular praise and worship music. While it is primarily designed for keyboardists, guitarists, and bassists, it can benefit any musician who aspires to compose, arrange, lead, or perform contemporary music. Through this course, students will learn about major and minor scales, modes, keys and key signatures, intervals, triads, four- and five-part chords, upper-structure chords, chord extensions, chord-scale relationships, voice-leading principles, and harmonic analysis.

The course includes various assignments such as written exercises in interval-building, scale/mode-building, chord-building, chord-voicing, and voice-leading, as well as ear-training exercises. It is intended for high school students who are comfortable with reading standard music notation.