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Whilst I have dealt with chords as part of my other courses, dealing with chord theory requires a little bit more understanding, particularly when it comes to inversions.

Simply put, intervals are the distance between two notes. Understanding and recognising intervals is an extremely important part of gaining a better understanding of music theory.

With the exception of the C-Melody Soprano and Tenor, (of which I’ve met one player of each in twenty three years of playing the saxophone), the saxophone is a transposing instrument.

As sax players we only ever use the treble clef, but those of you who play other instruments such as the piano will know that there are other clefs.

Underpinning all of these theory videos are the major scales. In this lesson we explore how to combine our knowledge of the clefs, key signatures and the major scales in order to answer the questions set on scales.

In this video I show you how to answer questions on irregular time signatures.
‘Irregular’ or ‘odd’ time signatures are those that are usually 5 or 7 beats in a bar. This is pretty straightforward and is something you should master quite quickly.

‘Voices in score’ is one of those theory topics that, as a saxophonist, you have every right to ask: ‘Why?’
Yet ours is not to reason why, ours is just to do or …

Cadential points in music are like punctuation in grammar. They let you know when a phrase needs to pause, like these commas, and when it comes to an end, like this full stop.