Thinking in Groove
An interactive, piano-score-based book on how musicians design bass lines through harmony, motion, and time — the companion to Thinking in Layers, with the left hand as the bass and the right hand as its context.
Room
Music
Music, harmony, and the study of structured time.
A study of sound, structure, interpretation, and embodied timing. Piano, bass, harmony, transcription, phrasing — and the difference between playing notes and hearing form.
- music
- piano
- bass
- harmony
- rhythm
- transcription
- phrasing
- listening
Notes
Thinking in Layers
A mental model for jazz piano harmony built on superimposition — an underlying function, a structure placed above it, and the resulting color — taught through one fixed progression with playable, inline notation.
The Wrong Level of Abstraction
Playing *Love on Top* revealed a chord progression that looked foreign until I stopped analyzing chords and started following voice movement. A reminder that many complex systems appear irrational only because we are observing them at the wrong level of abstraction.
Autumn Leaves
A study of Autumn Leaves — its ii–V–I movements, the harmonic relationship between G major and E minor, and why B7 creates such a strong resolution.