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Musical simples – Teenage Dream

I’m working with Soundfly on the next installment of Theory For Producers, our ultra-futuristic online music theory course. The first unit covered the black keys of the piano and the pentatonic scales. The next one will talk about the white keys  and the diatonic modes. We were gathering examples, and we needed to find a well-known pop song that …

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Posted byEthanMarch 7, 2016March 16, 2016Posted inComposition, Music, Music TheoryTags: aQWERTYon, Fleetwood Mac, harmony, Jane's Addiction, Katy Perry, MusEDLab, music teaching, music theory, musical simples, pop, PWYM, rhythm, Soundfly, syncopation, Theory for Producers, tresillo2 Comments on Musical simples – Teenage Dream
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