Harmony Courses and Certifications

Music Harmony Lessons

Study music harmony and master the use of chords and their construction, chord progressions and the traditional practice principles of connection that govern them.

• YouTube
• 14 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

MangoldProject

Interesting Chords- A Tour of Harmony & Voicing

Explore colorful piano harmony through modern chord voicings, extensions, quartal structures, and jazz progressions.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fundamentals of Music Theory

27 ratings

Learn to read and write Western music notation while studying pitches, scales, modes, intervals, clefs, rhythm and form, functional harmony, cadences and harmonic analysis.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Musicianship: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Modal Interchange

405 ratings at Coursera

Learn chord tensions, harmonic function, the II- V I and bVI bVII I progressions, modal interchange, and suspended chords, while ear training and composing a 16-bar song.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Produce & Write in Ableton Live: Write Music in Any Genre

Write harmony parts in Ableton Live: build chord progressions, arpeggios and pedal tones, layer vocals and synths, then record and mix with EQ, compression and reverb.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Developing Your Musicianship

16 ratings

Build major and minor pentatonic scales, sing and identify intervals, construct triads and seventh chords, read chord sheets, and compose a blues riff tune.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Approaching Music Theory: Melodic Forms and Simple Harmony

173 ratings at Coursera

Build a theoretical vocabulary for melody, counterpoint, and harmony by listening to and writing your own examples in Gregorian chant, jazz, pop, and folk styles.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

4 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

The music of Mozart has been used to examine the foreground and middleground of harmony in free courses AA314_1 and AA314_2. In this free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background, ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Bass Patterns in Blues and Rock - Lecture 8

Learn to hear bass patterns and identify three- and four-chord harmonic progressions across popular and classical music.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Solfege at your fingertips 3

Music theory is often perceived as difficult to understand, and solfege is seen as a complex learning process. These courses aim to change this perspective by proposing a dynamic method that, from the

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Music Theory Level 2: Part Seven

Harmonize chorale melodies by finding chords for a given melody, resolving V7 inversions in SATB voicing, realizing figured bass, and choosing cadences and progressions.

• Kadenze
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• $25.00

Music Theory Level 2: Part Eight

Expand harmony beyond diatonic progressions: write and analyze cadential, neighboring, pedal, passing and arpeggiating 6/4 chords, parallelism, and V7 tonic expansions.

• Kadenze
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• $25.00

Music Theory Level 2: Part Nine

Analyze chord sequences moving by fifths, thirds, and seconds, then handle secondary dominants, tonicization, and key modulation in works like Pachelbel's Canon and Bach's Cello Suite.

• Kadenze
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• $25.00