Articles Published by Dennis Winge

Music Theory

A Harmonic Analysis of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Chord Theory and its Immediate Usefulness

Common Scales and their Intervals

Common Types of Slash Chords and How They Function

Constructing Major Scales

Creating Modal Chord Progressions

Deck the Halls with Coltrane Changes

Exotic Scales

Horizontal & Vertical Improvising

How to Create Grooves using Harmonized Scales

How to Harmonize a Melody, part 1

How to Harmonize a Melody, part 2

How to Harmonize a Melody, part 3

How to Harmonize a Scale

How to Simplify Complicated Chord Progressions

How to Write Modal Progressions

Improvising on Guitar without Accompaniment

Introduction to the Modes

Jazz Theory – Analyzing Tunes

Jazz Theory – Diminished Scale

Jazz Theory – Rhythm

Jazz Theory – The Magic of Guide Tones

Jazz Theory – The Many Uses of Melodic Minor

Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 1, Harmony

Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 2, Rhythm

Jazzing Up your Rock Playing – part 3, Melody

Make Up Cool Chord Progressions Easily

Melodic Patterns

Memorizing the Modes

Music by Numbers

Quick and Easy Guide to Modes

Rough Guide to Classical Harmony

The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Dynamics

The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Texture

The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Timbre

The Lesser Known Musical Elements – Form

The Power of Simple Sequences

To Loop or Not to Loop

Tritone Modal Relationships and the Circle of Fifths

Using Minor and Major Scales in the Same Guitar Solo

What Scales to Play Over What Chords