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HARMONIC WHEEL: UTILITIES

LEVEL 1: FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC THEORY

1. Musical notes
2. Intervals
3. Inversion of intervals
4. Intervals and the harmonic wheel
5. Major scales
6. Major scales and the harmonic wheel
7. Minor scales
8. Map of the keys

LEVEL 2: FOUNDATIONS OF HARMONY

9. Major and minor chords
10. Augmented and diminished chords
11. Four note chords
12. Chords and scales
13. Chord finder and the major-minor system
14. Pentatonic scales. Properties
15. Diminished scales and their associated chords
16. Hexatonic scales and their associated chords

DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOAD

APPLICATIONS OF THE HARMONIC WHEEL

Example of a Composition
Modulation: Pivot Chords
Béla Bartók's Axis System
Coltrane Changes

APPLICATIONS OF IMPROCHART

IMPROCHART: User Guide
Examples on Improvisation

SUMMARIES

Poster Harmonic Wheel and IMPROCHART
Pamphlet Harmonic Wheel and IMPROCHART

OTHER SECTIONS

Publications
Contact
 

Luis Nuño

Born in Valencia (Spain) in 1963, he began his musical studies at the age of 7, the trumpet being his first instrument. In 1979 began studying guitar, but 3 years later left aside his musical career to move to Madrid and study Telecommunication Engineering. After finishing the career and working in a private company for some years, in 1990 he returned to Valencia and was incorporated at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he is currently working as a Professor in the Area of Signal Theory and Communications.

In parallel to his scientific activity, he self studied harmony and composition. In 2004 he compiled his compositions for guitar, which were 12 at that moment. In 2006 an important change occurred in his musical work: his scientific and researching background, along with his interest in structuring his musical ideas, drove him to develop a diagram summarizing the consonance relationships among the musical notes, as well as showing a panoramic view of the keys, in a more complete way than the traditional cycle of fifths. After including a mechanical part he called it Harmonic Wheel. In 2008 he developed 2 more very useful instruments: IMPROCHART™ or Improvisation Chart, which gives the most suitable scales to improvise on any chord, and the Musical Abacus, which summarizes the fundamental concepts in Music Theory and Harmony.

Nowadays, he has near 50 compositions for solo guitar, some of which were composed by using the Harmonic Wheel and IMPROCHART™. In 2009 he met the guitarist Toni Cotolí, who played his works for first time in Spain and other countries. After obtaining success, in 2010 they decided to record a CD with 20 of those pieces. The CD, entitled “Puesta de Sol” (“Sunset”), includes a large variety of rhythms and styles. It is available in this Website.

Please, send your comments or queries to: harmonicwheelgmail.com

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