Microsoft Excel Music Theory-Advanced Chords Reworked

Systems Thinking for Business Professionals - Redesigning and Antiquated System Part 7
What you'll learn
✓ Build full modal chord inversion systems in Excel using formulas, references, and structured tables
✓ Construct dropped-note chord variations for all modal shapes (Ionian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aolon, Dorian, Frigian, Lorian)
✓ Add and name "ocean notes" - notes outside the seven-note collection - using the point-based modal system
✓ Translate traditional chord names into clean, mathematical distance-based names
✓ Use Excel to verify chord structures, modal distances, and modal half-step relationships
✓ Apply mixed and absolute references to build scalable chord-generation tools
✓ Create modal stacks, inversion grids, and extended chords using consistent logic
✓ Compare traditional scale-degree naming with the more efficient modal-distance approach
✓ Understand when to use long-distance naming vs. short-distance naming for clarity
✓ Use superscripts to control octave adjustments in extended or ocean-note chords
✓ Analyze and reconstruct the entire chord system using Excel as a music-theoretical "laboratory"
✓ Improve both Excel proficiency and music-theory understanding through hands-on modeling
Requirements
● No prior music theory knowledge required - all concepts are taught step-by-step
● Basic familiarity with Excel (entering formulas, navigating cells) is helpful but not required
● A willingness to learn through hands-on spreadsheet building
● Curiosity about systems, patterns, and improving broken or outdated frameworks
Description
This course continues your unique Excel-driven journey through music theory-where business professionals sharpen real spreadsheet skills while helping redesign a clearer, more logical system of harmony. Starting from Modal Chord Inversions (Part 1) and progressing through dropped-note logic, ocean-node naming, and outside-collection chord construction, this course transforms Excel into a powerful analytical engine for rebuilding chord theory from the ground up.
Traditional music theory is cluttered with inconsistencies-sharp this, flat that, suspended here, diminished there, and a naming system that collapses the moment you add, drop, or modify a single note. In this course, you'll learn how to replace that broken legacy structure with a clean, uniform, distance-based naming system that Excel can compute, verify, and replicate across any key or modal environment.
Using Excel as your laboratory, you'll build
• Complete modal chord inversion tables
• Dropped-note chord structures for all seven modal shapes
• Ocean-note naming for notes outside the seven-note collection
• A fully functional system that replaces confusing chord names with clean, mathematical logic
• A DAW-friendly coordinate system ready for the next generation of composition tools
Every formula, range, reference, and lookup you build in Excel strengthens your spreadsheet skill set: absolute and mixed references, dynamic dragging, table visualization, controlled hiding/unhiding of data, and full-scale systems thinking.
Meanwhile, musicians and producers will finally gain a system that makes theory intuitive, consistent, transposable, and modern-no more contradictory naming conventions or memorization traps.
Whether you're here for Excel, music theory, or the rare combination of both, this course guides you step-by-step toward mastering a smarter, more functional theory system-one that business professionals can model, and musicians can actually use.
Who this course is for
■ Business professionals who want to strengthen Excel skills through a structured, real-world modeling project
■ Musicians seeking a clearer, more logical alternative to traditional music theory
■ Producers, composers, and guitarists who want consistent chord naming without memorization traps
■ Data-driven learners who enjoy understanding systems through patterns, logic, and structure
■ Excel students who prefer hands-on, formula-based learning over abstract explanations
■ Music educators looking for a clean, modern way to teach harmony and chord-building
■ Anyone frustrated by contradictions in traditional chord naming who wants a functional, DAW-ready system
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