Applied Professional Harmony 101

Applied Professional Harmony, which has been endorsed by Academy and Grammy winning songwriter Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther, Moon River, Remington Steele theme), is a songwriter/composer's approach to learning harmony where the student has the option of recording their work in a home recording studio or synthesizer. It's designed to complement Sheila Davis' The Craft of Lyric Writing. APH 101 covers music basics, music preparation techniques, song form, triadic chord connections, four-voice chords, chord connections, building block chord progressions, creating extended chord progressions, analysis of pop tune chord progressions, creating your first demo arrangement, 19 combinations of melody/background/pad, how to create a bass line, how to harmonize a given melody line, four-voice vocal arranging and the Bach chorales, practical writing applications and much more. Book 1 of 4.

Alexander is a graduate of both the Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary where he earned his A.A. Degree as a math minor, and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is also a producer and composer.