Are you a performer or improviser who thinks with your fingers rather than Roman numerals? Rethinking Harmony isn't theory you read — it's a shape you feel under your hands. Once it's in your fingers, you'll recognize it everywhere on the keyboard.
Are you a student of music tired of memorizing scales, modes and chords as unrelated list of notes? Rethinking Harmony condenses them into a set of shape signatures - learn the shape once, and music theory becomes intuitive positions instead of flashcards.
Are you a teacher looking for the explanation that finally makes everything click? With Rethinking Harmony you can teach scales, modes and chords from one repeating shape. This unifying concept transforms a semester of disconnected rules into one memorable idea for your students.
Are you a theory nerd who wants the receipts? Rethinking Harmony is a fully developed formal system featuring interval vectors, chord derivations, and modal geometry.
The Chromatic Block System reorganizes the octave into four-note blocks joined by a single gap note — one geometric shape that generates a nine-note scale, a nonatonic scale.