Intro to Harmonizing Melodies

Notice:

First, the progression from the extremely simplistic harmonizing strategies to the very sophisticated but practical approach of the gospel/jazz harmonizations.

Second, with what you have learned from the fundamentals we've covered, everything will make sense to you with a little thought. However, you will also notice that you have a great advantage over whoever might be learning from these tutorials; they don't actually get the "big picture" like you should by now.

Why all of this works should start to become apparent to you. Yet the way it is taught below, even to people who have obviously had years of playing (the Gospel tutorial audience), the approach is for actually playing the keyboard or writing voices, but without really understanding very well the background from which all this arose.

So even though most of you have little to no practical performing experience you should still be able to follow the tutorials below even the sophisticated gospel/jazz ones. You've come much further than you may realize.