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I am trying to play lead sheets and I am not sure how to play the chords on the left hand. At first, I pressed the keys all at the same time once, and now I am trying to arpeggiate the chords. …

I am trying to play the half/fully diminished chords on the piano but it is very difficult, especially so for Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb. Is there a tip on how to play those chords? …

While I was reading about commonalities between French A6 and tritone substitute, I kept bumping into the similarities between French A6 and V7b5/b5. French A6 is ^b6 ^1 ^2 ^#4 and V7b5/b5 is ^5 ^7 ^ …

While reading up on four-way close voicing (part of Evan Rogers' Big Band Arranging series), I have encountered something I cannot quite understand, so maybe there is a typo in the article? The pictur …

Do I see them as implied chords(wholly different passing chords), or do I see them in relation to Cmaj7(i.e C is 1, F is 4, and so on...)? …

Even if a rootless chord is common in five-part solis voicing, ordinary chords with roots are also present.(2nd chord in m.1 has a root, 2nd chord in m.2 has no root) How can you differentiate chords with …

Over the course of reading this book(the excerpt is an exercise from the book), I have always expected accidental notes to mean something like modulation and applied chords. … How would you label these cadence chords? …

The excerpt is in C# minor. C# is present in what is apparently a dominant seventh chord in m.14. How should I interpret presence of tonic in the dominant chord? Is that what's called a pedal tone? ( …

I encountered this example 31-17 in a book that I am reading, and the author says that the Neapolitan chord follows the "falling fifth pattern". I guess that would be the case if the Neapolitan chord …

When playing solo over a chord, a scale should be chosen. When a musician choose a certain scale, what is the rationale behind? I can come up with a few points but only poorly. such scale has tension …

Three ways are available when approaching II-7 via bIII. bIIIMaj7, subV/II, bIII full dim. I blindly thought that Ionian scale is used for solo over bIIIMaj7, but apparently Lydian is used. Can anybo …

Maybe I am being overly meticulous on naming chords, but like Cadential64, can there be V with only 4-3 in classical music? … The excerpt above has the chord F Bb C and named it V/ii considering the chords in the next measure too (I guess). …

Deciding chord symbols for chords is always ambiguous and leaves a room of doubt. … I attempted to write chord symbols for chords with pitches of mixed duration in m.1 from the second downbeat to the end of the measure. …

I was reading up on modulation to distantly-related keys. Fully-diminished chord is used for modulation to chromatic keys, because the root is changeable. And then I encountered this picture. If the …

I encountered the example in the picture above today, and I found it interesting because a secondary dominant had 2 tritones with addition of b9. A tritone is an integral part to definition of the do …