Sitemap - 2021 - Ethan teaches you music

My current Intro to Music Technology syllabus

Things I wrote this year

Living for the City

The chromatic circle and the circle of fifths

Remixing David Bowie's "Starman"

Morning Dew

The harmonic family tree

Seventh chords in just intonation vs 12-TET

Let's analyze Alexander Scriabin incorrectly

Dual tonicity in a classic klezmer tune

Led Zeppelin, "Ten Years Gone"

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Smokestack Lightning

How guitarists learn music theory

Research statement

Nahre Sol introduces Billie Eilish to the classical canon

The blues and the harmonic series - a visual guide

The problem with just intonation - a visual guide

Modes from light to dark around the chromatic circle

The Well-Tempered (and not-so-well-tempered) Clavier

I made some music in exotic just intonation tunings because why not

Teaching statement

Just intonation and key changes

The three diminished chords: blues, jazz and classical

The Kronos Quartet play Jimi Hendrix

Defining key centers with rhythm

Music Theory Songs

Chords and modal interchange

Waiting For Benny

V7-I cadences as harmonic whiteness

The politics is in the drums: Producing and composing in the music classroom

Spoonful

No, Rolling Stone, D minor is not the saddest of all keys

Lightnin' Hopkins - "My California"

I made a Patreon page

Nature Boy

Starfish and Coffee

Here is a web based music education tool that I wish existed

I Want You Back

Interview with the Vancouver Arts Colloquium Society

I was weirdly obsessed with this jazz tune when I was twelve

Our book is out!

The great scale flowchart

The blues and the harmonic series

Kind Hearted Woman Blues

Blues tonality update

Boogie Chillen

Brokedown Palace

Did Lorde rip off George Michael?

Kicking out the JAMS

Pieces vs Songs vs Grooves

Chain of Fools

Oye Como Va

Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor

What if the Bach Chaconne was modal jazz?

Deep dive into the Bach Chaconne

Music Ed Tech Talk with Will and me

Green Onions

Conversation with Jim Frankel on the MusicFirst podcast

Music is not a universal language and this klezmer song proves it

Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus XI

Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus VIII

I am making my students write raps and I wrote one too

The Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus I

Teaching songwriting to music education students

Sonnymoon for Two

Groove melodies

Repetition legitimizes, funk beautifies

My Favorite Things

Adam Neely video on "Hey Joe" and blues tonality

The best guitar solo ever recorded

Groove harmony

Keep On Truckin'

You Are What I'm All About

Who is Heinrich Schenker and why should you care?

Swing primer

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

The Roots, "Don't See Us"

The NYU Music Education Popular Music Practicum

The Roots - "The Lesson Part III (It's Over Now)"

Thelonius

Happy inauguration day

Soon may the wellerman come

Rhythm-a-Ning

Straight, No Chaser