Sitemap - 2024 - Ethan teaches you music
My year in pop aural skills teaching
My year in pop music theory teaching
In defense of Wonderful Christmastime
Jason Yust on tonality and racism
A general theory of transcendent pop smashes
The melodic-harmonic divorce in pop
Adding vocal harmony to a Tears for Fears song
Identifying chromatic embellishments
MusicRadar column on "Lilac Wine" by Jeff Buckley
The Grateful Dead as improv comedy
A nice Jerry line from the Cornell Scarlet>Fire
I wrote a song to help my students with key signatures
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
I built a track out of Grateful Dead jamming
MusicRadar column on "When Doves Cry"
The harmonica as a metaphor for pop music theory
MusicRadar column on three songs from Brat by Charli XCX
Maceo Parker's blue notes in a James Brown classic
F-sharp vs G-flat in just intonation
What does Jerry Garcia play on "Eyes of the World" and why does it sound so cool?
New book chapter with Toni Blackman
New MusicRadar column about Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!"
The F-Flat Annual Back-to-School Symposium
Visualizing note and rest durations
MusicRadar column on Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso"
The bottom number in time signatures has always confused me
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" and "Soul Makossa"
Identifying tritone substitutions
Improvising over secondary dominants
Identifying embellishing tones
Identifying harmonized basslines
Identifying standard pop chord progressions
Identifying I, IV and V chords
Identifying the diatonic modes
New monthly column for MusicRadar
As it turns out, I will be teaching aural skills at NYU this semester