Full Week Schedule

• Mon, Apr 6 Weekly Beat Challenge w/ Nathan · 7am (PT) | 10am (ET) | 3pm (UK)
• Mon, Apr 6 Office Hours Ask questions, get help, and connect. w/ Kallie · 9am (PT) | 12pm (ET) | 5pm (UK)
• Mon, Apr 6 Theory Gym Start your day at the 'gym' with a morning music theory workout w/ Nathan · 9pm (PT) | 12am (ET) | 5am (UK)
• Tue, Apr 7 Ear Training Test your ears and discuss - Music, Mixing and more! w/ Nathan · 7am (PT) | 10am (ET) | 3pm (UK)
• Tue, Apr 7 Office Hours Ask questions, get help, and connect. w/ Kallie · 10am (PT) | 1pm (ET) | 6pm (UK)
• Tue, Apr 7 Production Gym Start your day at the 'gym' with a production breakdown of your favorite songs w/ Scott Hampton · 5pm (PT) | 8pm (ET) | 1am (UK)
• Wed, Apr 8 Theory Gym Start your day at the 'gym' with a morning music theory workout w/ Nathan · 8am (PT) | 11am (ET) | 4pm (UK)
• Wed, Apr 8 Weekly Beat Challenge w/ Nathan · 6pm (PT) | 9pm (ET) | 2am (UK)
• Wed, Apr 8 Office Hours Ask questions, get help, and connect. w/ Cinnamontal · 8pm (PT) | 11pm (ET) | 4am (UK)
• Thu, Apr 9 Production Gym Start your day at the 'gym' with a production breakdown of your favorite songs w/ Nathan · 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK)
• Thu, Apr 9 Office Hours Ask questions, get help, and connect. w/ Nathan · 2pm (PT) | 5pm (ET) | 10pm (UK)
• Thu, Apr 9 Office Hours Ask questions, get help, and connect. w/ Nathan · 5pm (PT) | 8pm (ET) | 1am (UK)

What We Covered Recently

• THEORY-GYM Breakdown of the Beatles' She's Leaving Home. Use of B Dorian, implication of different chords and cadences compared to B minor. Use of tension chords- Dominant 7th, Diminished and Sus chords. Analysis of chord and scale tones used in melody.
• EAR-TRAINING-GYM This morning's gym was a keyboard practice exercise that focused on both the drop to voicing and the Barry. Harris diminished bebop scale system. This not only reinforces harmonic thinking within every scale, but cord identification and finger dexterity.
• THEORY-GYM We explored Strawberry Fields Forever as a deep-dive analysis piece, working through its psychedelic production choices, unusual metric structure, and striking harmonic language — including line clichés, modal interchange, chromatic mediants, chord inversions, and figured bass. I also gave a live walkthrough of the Harmonic Synth tool, demonstrating how it visualizes the harmonic series, partials-based synthesis, and harmonic-aware tuning systems as a companion lens to the theory work.
• PRODUCTION-GYM Production breakdown of Bjork's Army of Me. History of the the Led Zeppelin "Levee Break" drum sample used, analysis of synth sounds, use of Locrian mode, use of chromatic samples in riff.
• THEORY-GYM We took Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" as a case study in how profound musical joy can emerge from radical simplicity — just three chords, the I, IV, and V in C major. The session dug into the harmonic texture underneath that simplicity: plagal cadences nested inside perfect ones, chord inversions described through figured-bass shorthand (6-4 and 6-3), and a piano technique called triad pairs where two chords alternate up and down the scale in shifting inversions. We also touched on how equal temperament creates a kind of constant low-level motion in tuning — and how that connects, philosophically, to the way harmony itself is never truly "still."

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