Music Theory & Technique Workshops: Master Your Craft

Our "Music Factory" module is all about the harmonic analysis of popular songs. This workshop covers unique music theory concepts found in the music of The Beatles, Queen, Adele, and more, such as the line-cliche, the augmented climb, and the Andalusian cadence.

We love to get creative with our lesson series. This graphic announces our Rowan Atkinson-themed workshops, where we analyze the theme music from shows like "Mr. Bean" and "Blackadder" and even hold a choral session for "Ecce Homo Qui Est Faba."

This weekend in our "Music Factory" workshop, we're dissecting the epic rock anthem "Layla" by Eric Clapton. We'll be transcribing its harmonic progressions, melody, and iconic guitar solo using both our ears and theoretical analysis.

Our "Music Factory" workshops stay current and relevant. Here, we're offering a one-off class to explore and transcribe the hit songs from the 2024 Paris Olympics, focusing on melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic transcription.

This is a submission from our "Music Gym" module. Our intermediate piano student, Naman, demonstrates a series of arpeggio patterns with different speed variations and rhythmic patterns, a key exercise for building technical proficiency.

Here, our guitar faculty demonstrates a 3-note-per-string legato exercise. This is a fundamental technique for improving speed and fluidity on the guitar, and it's the kind of targeted drill we use to help students advance their skills.

Our guitar faculty explains the fingerstyle technique known as tremolo picking. This exercise helps create the sound of two guitars playing at once, with the thumb playing an arpeggio while the index and middle fingers handle a repetitive melody on the first string.

In this tutorial, our guitar faculty demonstrates two-hand tapping. He breaks down how to coordinate both hands to play different notes from the A minor pentatonic scale, creating a complex and impressive sound.

Learn to play chords in the creative style of Jimi Hendrix. Our guitar faculty shows how to use your thumb for the bass note on a G major chord, freeing up your other fingers to add melodic embellishments and create variations like add9, sus, and 6th chords.