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Jazz Lab Music

Finishing the edit on tomorrow morning's video (8:15am EST). We wrote a song from scratch using the harmonic matrix and a few rules for the exercise. Chord changes, melody, the whole thing.

We put the e-book for the harmonic matrix and the composition exercise on our site early - feel free to download here: jazzlabmusic.org/free-ebooks.

Poll: What's harder - writing the chords, or writing a melody?

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