What you’ll learn on the fluency path

Start here

Set up at the keys, find any pitch, then your free key pack — triads, degrees, a loop, and your scale gate.

Hands & Setup: Set your posture, learn finger numbers, and read Midimemo hand labels.

Find Any Note: Locate any pitch on the keyboard by feel — then open your DAW and land on the right key.

Bright & easy

C major — triads, degrees, a loop, and your scale gate.

C major triads: Seven diatonic triad chords in C major — letter names and colour.

C major chords: Seven diatonic degrees in C major — roman numerals before letter names.

First loop (I–V–vi–IV): Play a real I–V–vi–IV progression in C major.

C major scale: The C major map under your fingers — play through the scale gate.

Keys & loops

Triads, keys, and song loops — then optional sketch at the keys or in a DAW.

Triads & Colour: Root, 3rd, and 5th — major, minor, and diminished colour before your first chord bed.

White-Key Triads: Major and minor triads on white keys — hold your first chord bed.

Black-Key Triads: Root-position major, minor, and diminished triads on the five black-key roots.

Chord Degrees: Diatonic degrees for every key you unlock — learn all seven chords in at least one key in Progression, then this deck grows with each new key.

Keys & Centres: Major and natural minor as writing maps — know the centre before the scale drill.

Major & Minor Keys: Major and natural minor in every key — know the map you write in.

Roman Numerals & Loops: Numeral jobs and loop families — same motion in every key.

First Loop (I–V–ii–IV): One four-chord loop for every major key you unlock — learn all seven chord degrees in a key, then this deck grows with each new key.

Song Loops: I–V–vi–IV, I–vi–IV–V, ii–V–I, and I–♭VII–IV for every major key you unlock — grows with each key’s chord degrees.

Mix-ready chords

Inversions, sus, sevenths, and adds — chords that move cleanly through a mix.

Inversions & Bass Motion: Same chord tones, different bass — animate MIDI without rewriting the harmony.

Inversions: Major and minor triads in root position, 1st, and 2nd inversion — animate the bass in MIDI.

Sus & Augmented Colour: Sus2, sus4, and augmented colour — unresolved pads and lifts before the shapes drill.

Sus & Augmented: Suspended and augmented triad shapes in every key — sus pads and lifts.

Seventh Chord Colour: Add a 7th for colour and pull — maj7, 7, m7, and darker four-note shapes.

Seventh Chords: Major 7, dominant 7, minor 7, half-diminished, and diminished 7 — modern chord colour.

Adds & Sixths: 6, minor 6, add9, and 6/9 — open colour without seventh-chord tension.

Adds & Sixths: 6, minor 6, add9, and 6/9 colours on every root.

Tops & emotion

Leads, borrowed colour, and minor songwriting — more emotional range in the DAW.

Pentatonic & Blues: Major pent, minor pent, and blues as top-line maps over a stable chord bed.

Pentatonic & Blues: Major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, and blues on every root — hooks and tops.

Borrowed Colour: Pull darker chords from the parallel natural minor while keeping a major centre.

Borrowed Chords: ♭III, iv, ♭VI, ♭VII, and ii° borrowed from the parallel natural minor.

Minor Scale Variants: Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor — raised-7 pull before the variants gate.

Minor Scale Variants: Harmonic and melodic minor across the natural-minor keys.

Minor Song Loops: Minor numerals and loop jobs — home, deepen, and cadential pull.

Minor Song Loops: Natural-minor loops, harmonic cadences, Andalusian, and i–iv–♭VII for every minor key you unlock — grows with each key’s chord degrees.

Bass & pull

Slash bass, secondary motion, and seventh inversions — stronger pull between chords.

Slash Bass: Chord over a chosen bass — non-chord-tone floors under a major triad.

Slash Chords: Split-hand shapes: left-hand non-chord-tone bass with the triad above — /♭7, /2, and /♭6 on every root.

Secondary Dominants: Temporary V/x pull toward non-tonic degrees — aim, then arrive.

Secondary Dominants: V/ii, V/iii, V/IV, V/V, and V/vi as major triads in every major key.

Seventh Inversions: Same four tones, four bass notes — compact seventh voicings before the drill.

Seventh Inversions: Maj7, dominant 7, and m7 in all four inversions across 12 roots.

Colour & edge

Modes, guide-tone shells, and altered harmony — widen your harmonic palette.

Modes & Signature Chords: Mode as a colour centre — plus the one chord that signals each feel.

Modes: Dorian, Mixolydian, Lydian, and Phrygian in every key.

Modal Signature Chords: The one chord that signals Lydian, Mixolydian, Phrygian, or Dorian colour.

Guide-Tone Shells: Root plus 3rd and 7th — compact seventh-chord colour with room in the mix.

Guide-Tone Shells: Split-hand shells: root in the left hand, 3rd + 7th colour tones in the right — maj7, dominant 7, and minor 7.

Ninth Colour: Major 9, minor 9, and dominant 9 — the 9th as an octave-displaced 2nd.

Ninths: Major 9, minor 9, and dominant 9 on every root.

Altered Dominants: Sharpen V7 tension with ♭9, ♯9, ♯11, and ♭13 before the resolve.

Altered Dominants: 7♭9, 7♯9, 7♯11, and 7♭13 shapes on every root.

Chromatic Mediants: Root motion by major or minor third — surprise colour outside the key.

Chromatic Mediants: Root motion by major or minor third to a chord outside the key.

Intervals: Reach every simple interval from any root by feel.

Muscle memory

Build automatic recall across the full shape library.

Chord Fluency: Recall root-position shapes at speed — from triads to borrowed chords and guide-tone shells.