root position

Looking for advice from the music theory nerds in our community. I’d like to incorporate more theory for some of my teens and students in higher levels. What do you use? Books? Online tools? This is for students in levels 7 and up, who are…

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Some of my students want to play songs from simple fake books…usually Christian. Is it OK for me to teach them chord inversions? Also, they wanted to do Star Spangled Banner in G because it’s a better key for singing, but jumping around to play…

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