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Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

“Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.”

Who Else Wants To Master the Diminished Scale?

The diminished scale is an extremely creative tool. Due to the diminished chord’s symmetrical structure of stacked minor thirds, we have two options of diminished scales: half step-whole step and whole step-half step.

A major benefit to this scale is that you only have to learn it in three different keys since it repeats itself every [...]