This is my practice routine for getting altered dominant (#5, #9 chords specifically) rootless closed-voicing chords, and diminished whole-tone scales (sometimes referred to as the 7th mode of the ...

Modes are similar to tonal scales. In a tonal scale, each note in the sequence is a whole tone different from the next. Each tonal scale starts on a different note. Modes are sequences where each ...

Impressionist composers did not tie themselves to major and minor scales. Some impressionist music is based on whole tone scales and pentatonic scales, especially the music of Debussy. Debussy ...