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Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 10
Available for iOS and macOS

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"Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro wins our strongest recommendation for an app so far" The Berklee Groove

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Tessitura Pro Scales
Available for macOS (coming soon for iOS)

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“Tessitura Pro puts every musical scale at your fingertips—generating limitless exercises to master any scale, crafting custom scale patterns, and uncovering upper-structure voicings to spark your improvisation.”

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Take your musical skills to the next level with mDecks Music!

At mDecks Music, we create top-quality resources for musicians and composers of all levels. From interactive jazz piano courses and music theory books to powerful tonal harmony apps, our products are designed to make learning music clear, practical, and inspiring.

Whether you're looking to improve your improvisation, master harmony, or expand your creative toolkit, you'll find step-by-step methods, interactive PDFs, apps, and engaging video lessons to guide you. Our YouTube channel is also packed with free tutorials, jazz piano lessons, demonstrations, and more.

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NEW! Mastering Pentatonic Lines
Unleashing the Power of Substructures & Upper Structures

Pentatonic • Lines • Improvisation/Complete Jazz Piano Course


Master pentatonic lines and elevate your soloing. This interactive PDF includes video lessons, exercises, and backing tracks to help you create fluid, expressive lines over any progression. Learn essential techniques, transformations, and practice methods to sound like the pros.
Don’t miss this opportunity to revolutionize your playing and develop a deeper understanding of pentatonic improvisation. Start your journey today!
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NEW! Mastering Latin Piano Grooves
The complete step-by-step guide to authentic Latin piano styles

Cha-Cha • Bossa Nova • Montunos • Merengue & More/Complete Piano Course


Master authentic Latin grooves and transform your rhythm at the keyboard. This interactive PDF includes step-by-step video lessons, call & response tracks, and real song applications to help you internalize styles like Cha-Cha, Bossa Nova, Montuno, and Merengue.
Don’t miss this chance to bring the energy of Latin music into your playing and master the language of Latin piano. Start grooving today!
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Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 10

"Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro wins our strongest recommendation for an app so far" The Berklee Groove



Looking to master tonal harmony? Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro is the app you need!
With a vast library of backing tracks, chord progressions, and exercises, our comprehensive app is designed to assist musicians of all levels in understanding and exploring the complex world of tonal harmony. Featuring an interactive chord and scale map, advanced analysis tools, and customizable practice modes, our app is the ultimate tool for musicians looking to take their skills to the next level.
Download Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro today and start exploring the fascinating world of tonal harmony like never before!
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Music Apps for Musicians

The Jazz Standards Progressions Book 3rd Edition

"An incredible achievement!" M.Q./"Invaluable resource for every jazz musician" J.W.
Multiple Volumes Available


The 3rd Edition of The Jazz Standards Book Collection takes jazz harmony to the next level. With a new volume that parallels the Berklee Real Book.
• Standard Jazz harmonic analysis notation
• New arrows & brackets analysis
• Colored layers for better visualization
• Click on any function or scale anywhere in the score to view a dedicated page
• 5 volumes, each containing 6 books: Jazz Standards Analyzed, Reharmonizations, Harmony Workbooks, Upper Structures, Guide-Tone Lines & Target Notes
• Available for C, B♭ and E♭ instruments

This is an essential resource for anyone looking to deepen their knowledge and understanding of jazz standards.
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The Jazz Improvisation Workbook
Developing Your Jazz Language With The Legends

Learn jazz lines from the Masters/Each volume is dedicated to a jazz legend


"The Jazz Improvisation Workbook provides an invaluable deep dive into jazz improvisation, offering step-by-step guidance using iconic lines from legendary pianists to help players master the language of jazz."

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Pentatonic Voicings

Pentatonic • Voicings • Arranging/Complete Jazz Piano Course


Master essential jazz voicings with this interactive piano course. Includes video lessons, demos, exercises, and backing tracks. Learn to build, practice, and apply pentatonic voicings for comping, arranging, and transforming your playing.
Unlock the Power of Pentatonic Voicings with this amazing piano course.
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Essential Voicings for Jazz Piano Vol.1 & 2
4-Note Rootless Voicings

" Fantastic Piano Course" H.S./"Amazing! Well organized and useful." B.N.
Multiple Volumes Available


These are complete courses in an interactive PDF format with video lessons and demos. Essential Voicings for Jazz Piano 1 & 2 is a complete piano course that teaches you the most effective 4-note rootless voicings for chords found in the Jazz Standards repertoire.
The course includes 5-minute daily workouts and lessons for each key, as well as Jazz Standards Solos using rootless voicings to demonstrate their application in real-world playing situations. With an added XML file for Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro users, you can practice with the play-along at different tempos and styles in any key.
Get both volumes at a discounted price or purchase them separately to elevate your jazz piano playing to the next level!
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Advanced Piano Voicings Vols.1-4
A Complete Practice Method

12 Key Exercises • Master class on all voicings • Lead Sheets/Voicings • Upper Structures • Piano
Multiple Volumes Available


Master advanced jazz voicings through this step-by-step workbook series. Each volume offers exercises in all keys, focusing on cadences, 2-5-1’s, minor harmony, reharms, upper structures, and more.
"A must-have for any advanced piano player! Great sounding voicings with clear concepts and exercises in all keys"
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The Art Of Reharmonization
Advanced Techniques For Modern Harmony

Includes Guided Lessons & Audio Examples/Harmony • Songwriting • Arranging


"The Art of Reharmonization" is a comprehensive course that delves into the fascinating world of reharmonization, offering both beginners and advanced musicians a valuable resource to elevate their music composition and arrangement skills.
56 Lessons • 278 Pages • 2 Hours of Video Demos & Guided Lessons
Works on Android, Windows, iOS, macOS. It's a PDF!
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mDecks Music Jazz Standards for Solo Piano

Jazz Standards & Popular Songs for Solo Piano Vol.1, 2 & 3

Reharmonized • Arranged • Sheet Music • Demo Videos.


A collection of 12 jazz standards and popular songs beautifully reharmonized and arranged for solo piano. Includes classics like Blue in Green, Over the Rainbow, Yesterday, and Stella by Starlight. Comes with demo videos performed by a professional pianist. Perfect for pianists looking to expand their repertoire with fresh and inspiring arrangements.
Get your copy today and start playing your favorite jazz standards in a whole new way!
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Jazz Scales & Modes Vol.1 & 2
A Guide To Improvisation (C, Bb & Eb Instruments)

Includes Guided Lessons & Call And Response Practice Sessions/Improvisation • Scales • Modes
Multiple Volumes Available


Master jazz improvisation through two interactive volumes exploring the essential source scales: Major (Ionian), Melodic Minor, and their modes.
• Vol.1 covers Ionian modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
• Vol.2 focuses on Melodic Minor modes: Melodic Minor, Dorian b2, Lydian #5, Lydian b7, Mixolydian b13, Locrian natural 9, and Altered.
Each lesson offers clear explanations, practical exercises, and call-and-response sessions with a pianist to bring your improvisation to life.
Join us and explore the fascinating world of musical modes and improvisation.
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Thinking Ahead Vol.1
How To Improvise Over Chord Changes

Includes Guided Lessons & Backing Tracks/Jazz Improvisation• Target Notes • Enclosures


"Thinking Ahead Vol.1" is your gateway to mastering jazz improvisation by targeting chords within a progression. This course delves into fundamental concepts such as target notes, chromatic approaches, and essential tensions across various chord types, applying these techniques to five classic jazz standards: "Afternoon in Paris," "Blues for Alice," "Bouncing With Bud," "Doxy," and "Bye Bye Blackbird."
Elevate your jazz piano skills with our Thinking Ahead Course! We explore essential improvisation techniques to create entire solos over jazz standards.
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How To Compose Music
For Video Games & Film

10 Original Themes to Inspire and Develop Your Compositional Skills/Techniques in Composition


Learn to create compelling music for video games and film. This book covers essential composition techniques, focusing on piano and harmony—the composer’s most powerful tools. Discover practical methods to craft memorable themes, expressive harmonies, and scores that elevate any visual story.

"An invaluable resource for composers of all levels, offering clear, practical techniques that bring the worlds of video game and film scoring within reach—blending creativity with technical mastery to elevate your music to new heights."
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From Classical To Jazz Vol.1
A Complete Course for All Instruments

Includes Guided Lessons & Studies in All Keys/Jazz • Chords • Circle of Fifths


Dive into diatonic triads originating from the major mode, progress to diatonic 7th chords, and embrace your first taste of secondary dominance with the V7/vi. Discover the art of using the circle of fifths in jazz and uncover your musical strengths and weaknesses through tailored exercises.
A must-have for any player that wants to start playing Jazz. Tutorials & Studies in All Keys. Great for beginners!
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Building Your Jazz Vocabulary Vol.1
Bebop Rhythmic Words 1-10

Includes Backing Tracks/Demos & 12 Key Workouts
Multiple Volumes Available

Embark on a transformative musical journey with our Bebop Piano Course, a unique experience that focuses on rhythm to elevate your improvisation skills. Throughout this course, we'll delve into 10 essential rhythmic words, mastering them two at a time before combining all 10 to create mesmerizing solos over five jazz standards: "Afternoon in Paris," "Blues for Alice," "Bouncing With Bud," "Doxy," and "Bye Bye Blackbird."
Also available for Bb & Eb instruments.
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Bebop Lines You Should Know

Includes Backing Tracks/Demos & 12 Key Workouts
Multiple Volumes Available


This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to master bebop improvisation. It covers everything from basic to advanced concepts like Chromatic Approaches, Enclosures, Scale Combinations, Lick Transformations, and Beat Targeting.
The book also includes a collection of bebop lines from legendary artists like Bud Powell, Kenny Barron, Wynton Kelly, and Bill Evans, along with play-along backing tracks, video lessons, and a Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro XML file with progressions from the bebop lines.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced musician, this book is an indispensable tool for mastering bebop improvisation.
Also available for Bb & Eb instruments.
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Politonus Ear Training Suite

Complete Ear Training

A musical approach to develop Perfect & Relative Pitch
Politonus I (Charlie Banacos's Method) • Politonus II (Intervals, Triads & Seventh Chords) • Politonus III (scales & modes)
Available for macOS & iOS
mDecks Music Journal

mDecks Music Journal

Tutorials • Questionnaires • Sheet Music • Worksheets and much more.
Multiple Volumes Available


The mDecks Music Journal is a comprehensive journal that covers a wide range of topics and techniques in music theory and practice.
With a new volume published every two months, it offers video lessons from the mDecks Music YouTube channel, accompanied by supplementary materials to study and practice.
The journal explores tonal harmony, scales and modes, jazz harmony, innovative piano tricks and techniques, chord symbol knowledge, songwriting techniques, and advanced harmony concepts. It also provides insights into reharmonization techniques and offers a wealth of resources for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of music theory and expand their musical horizons.
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Sight Reading Piano

Advanced Piano Tricks - Volume 1

Piano Course, Improvisation & Music Theory


This is a complete course in an interactive PDF format with video lessons and demos. Advanced Piano Tricks Vol.1 is an online course designed for pianists who want to enhance their playing skills.
The course includes video lessons, interactive PDFs, and piano sheet music in all keys. The course teaches advanced concepts in music theory and piano playing, including upper structures, reharmonizations, target notes, backdoor endings, and more.
With 20 tricks to learn, including dominant alterations, diminished chord voicings, and bass-line reharmonizations.
This course is perfect for those who want to take their piano playing to the next level.
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Upper Structures for Piano Voicings & Improvisation Vol.1&2

Complete Piano Course/Triads & Quartals
Multiple Volumes Available


These are complete courses in an interactive PDF format with video lessons and demos. The Upper Structures for Piano Voicings & Improvisation course is a comprehensive guide for pianists who want to take their skills to the next level.
The course includes two volumes of interactive PDFs, video lessons, and challenges, along with complete song charts of well-known jazz standards. Taught with the help of comic strips, the course covers upper structure triads, perfect and altered quartals, and chord building with colors. This course is designed for all levels of players and offers a complete practice method for voicings using Upper Structures.
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50 Essential Jazz Standards Progressions in 12 Keys

50 Essential Jazz Standards Progressions In All Keys

Chord Changes & Harmonic Analysis/Chord-Scales, Arrows & Brackets


The best Jazz Standards in all keys. Fully analyzed with harmonic functions, chord-scales and arrows & brackets analysis
Available in PDF & Paperback
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Jazz Standards w/Target Notes

Chord-Tones • Tensions • Tone-Lines/Improvisation using Target Notes
Multiple Volumes Available


AVAILABLE FOR C, Bb and Eb Instruments (Treble or Bass)
Get ready to take your jazz improvisation skills to the next level with the Target Notes Bundle. This comprehensive bundle includes over 3,500 pages of jazz standards appearing 10 times each, one for each target note technique, covering chord-tones, tensions, and tone-lines. By practicing target notes over the entire Jazz Standards repertoire, you will enhance your ear training and playing skills, while learning jazz standards from a new perspective.
With introductory chapters on chord-tones, guide tones, available and avoid tensions, and how to create lines, this bundle is an exceptional tool for musicians of all levels.
Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to improve your playing and order your Target Notes Bundle today!
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Tessitura Pro

Scales Modes & Melodic Patterns

All Scales In Music • Source Scales, Modes • Melodic Patterns • Symmetric Scales • Hexatonic Scales • Upper Structures
Available for macOS & iOS
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The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales

"...An unprecedented achievement of massive proportions. Monumental and beautifully presented. A must have for every musician." M.T.J.


The Universal Encyclopedia of Scales is a fully interactive PDF containing all 2048 scales in music, organized over the circle of fifths, with 2600+ pages of information.
The encyclopedia includes chapters on scale theory, several master indexes by mode count and note count, source scales, symmetrical scales, and hexatonic bi-triadic scales.
Each scale has its own individual page that shows the default name, alternative names, link to its Source Scale & Related Modes, amount of notes, modes & transpositions, intervallic formula, degrees formula, source scale, symmetry, bi-triadic hexatonic classification, a graph over the circle of fifths, an interval-content chart, and dissonance index values.
You will not find this encyclopedia anywhere else. Start exploring the fascinating world of musical scales today!
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The Composer's Guide To Tonality Book

The Composer's Guide to Tonality
Mapping Tonal Harmony Interactive PDF

PDF App Version/Tonal Harmony (Traditional/Jazz)
Multiple Volumes Available


An easy to use, interactive pdf version of Mapping Tonal Harmony with all the maps in every key, in different levels and styles. Get the benefits of having a landscape that reveals the secrets of harmony without having to learn any software
Compatible with Windows, Android, macOS & iOS
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Mapping Tonal Harmony Workbooks 1-7

Mapping Tonal Harmony Workbooks 1-7

Tonal Harmony & Cadences/Chords & Chord-Scales
Works on any device: Android, Apple, Windows...
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7 Tonal Harmony Workbooks accompanying Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro app, one for each level of the map, to study and practice tonal harmony like never before.
Available in PDF & Paperback
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Elementary Rhythmic Training Vol.1-2

Elementary Rhythmic Training Vol.1 & 2

Rhythmic Vocabulary Exercises/Beginners Level


A progressive approach to the development of rhythmic vocabulary for beginning and intermediate students. Vol.1 and Vol.2 are also available as two separate volumes.
Available in PDF & Paperback
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Doubling on Woodwinds

Woodwing Practice Method/Saxophone, Clarinet & Flute

Doubling on Woodwinds was envisioned as a work plan for woodwind players that allows for a more efficient daily practice of their doublings. Whether your primary instrument is flute, clarinet or saxophone, this book will help you improve your skills with each instrument
Available in Paperback on amazon.com

Piano Technique Vol.1

Fingers Control, independence, balance & strength/Rhythmic Subdivisions & Essential Polyrhythms

Piano method containing 43 technical exercises for developing and maintaining your technique to its best possible shape. Some exercises are for the very beginner while others require a higher level of proficiency
Available in Paperback on amazon.com
mDecks Musical IQ Test

What's Your Musical IQ?
Take the Challenge - It's Fun!

Interactive Test/See a picture of your musical brain
The mDecks Musical IQ Test was designed for music enthusiasts of all levels.
Explore your abilities through 10 essential music topics.

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