The Rough Guide to Harmony

by Guy Snape © 2000
Introduction
Part One - The major scale and how chords are formed
Part Two - Diatonic chords; the three chord trick; tension and resolution
Part Three - The relative minor and the II and III chords
Part Four - From triads to four note chords
Part Five - Playing in other keys
Part Six - Minor keys
Part Seven - The cycle of fourths and the ii-V-I progression
Part Eight - Chord substitution, secondary dominants and flat-fives
Part Nine - Extended and altered chords, or 'What do all those funny numbers mean?'
Part Ten - Song analysis