Stage 8 · Intermediate
Harmony City
Intervals, triads, diatonic chords, functions and the five boxes
You enter the city where every street has a name. You understand intervals by ear and on the neck, build triads, harmonise the major scale, discover harmonic functions and connect the five pentatonic boxes.
Stops in this stage
- Intervals: the distance between notesNumber, quality and the shape of each interval on the neck.
- Intervals by earConsonance, dissonance, inversion and compound intervals.
- Triads: how a chord is builtMajor, minor, diminished and augmented, and their inversions.
- Harmonising the major scaleThe seven chords of a key and Roman numerals.
- Functions and cadencesRest, tension and resolution: how harmony breathes.
- The five pentatonic boxesConnecting the pentatonic across the whole neck.
- Milestone: Harmony CityReview, practical challenge and self-assessment to close the stage with everything you learned.