The Pachelbel Exercise:

Thinking chord progressions with inversions and root arpeggio patterns - 3 videos (42 minutes)

Most musicians come to realize that thinking chords is the pathway to mastering their instruments especially to develop arranging and improvisation skills. This exercise just about guarantees that you will think chords by the time you nail this conceptually simple (but challenging) exercise! 

I use the eight chords in The Canon to practice three forms of the chord progression. These patterns are critical to playing backup. And from these patterns, we explore the derivation of six three note chord patterns. I also describe how to harmonize a scale and why this is so vitally important to arranging: this is the concept that each note in a scale may be harmonized in predictable ways (given certain rules of harmony.) 

Just to be clear, I do not teach the piece itself but use the chord progression for a very valuable set of exercises. However, if you do learn the piece, you will find the focus on the chord progression to be very valuable! 

Videos Included:

• Arpeggio & chord patterns / Inversions
  
• Deriving three note chords & harmonizing a scale
  
• Pachelbel exercise – root and inversion arpeggios
  
• Also included: the Map of the Dulcimer document
  

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Recorded June 2016 Fenchurch Studios, Baltimore MD