Explain function
Build diatonic chords, identify cadences and describe stability, departure, tension and resolution.
Understand why chords move.
The fourth stage turns chord lists into harmonic systems. You will relate scales to chords, follow individual voices, hear cadential pull and choose richer notes without losing the function underneath.
After this stage
What will you understand and be able to do?
Choose colour
Use modes, melodic minor, extensions and diminished sounds as controlled harmonic options.
Connect lines and chords
Apply voice leading, arpeggios, scale–chord choices and melody harmonisation.
Lesson directory
Everything in this stage
The order reflects concepts required by later lessons. You can open any topic in the app, while recommendations show what is worth learning first.
- 01Diatonic harmonyGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 02Cadences: musical punctuationGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 03Modes and tonal colourGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 04Melodic minor scaleGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 05Chord extensions and voicingsGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 06Seventh-chord arpeggiosGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 07Voice leadingGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 08Diminished and half-diminished chordsGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 09The scale–chord relationshipGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 10Harmonizing a melodyGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
- 11Compound and irregular meterGuided lesson with knowledge check✓
Topic map
How the lessons combine into larger skills.
Harmonic direction
Diatonic harmony, harmonic functions, cadences and voice leading.
Colour and vocabulary
Modes, melodic minor, extensions, diminished and half-diminished structures.
Application
Seventh-chord arpeggios, scale–chord relationships and harmonising a melody.
The final stage deliberately leaves one-key harmony and asks how to reshape an existing progression or travel between tonal centres.
Fretuno for Android
Complete the stage at your pace and revisit any lesson.
Fretuno is being prepared for release. The Google Play link will appear here when the store listing is live.