[100% Off] Microsoft Excel Music Theory-Chords Scale Vs Distance
Systems Thinking for Business Professionals – Redesigning and Antiquated System Part 6
Requirements
- No prior music theory knowledge required — all concepts are taught from the ground up
- Basic familiarity with Microsoft Excel (entering formulas, navigating cells) is helpful but not required
- A willingness to learn through hands-on spreadsheet building
- Curiosity about how systems can be redesigned to be more logical and efficient
Description
Welcome to the next evolution of your Excel-powered music theory journey — the point where spreadsheets stop being “just spreadsheets” and become the most powerful music-system redesign lab you’ve ever used.
In this course, we dive deep into the truth behind chords — not the legacy, confusing, centuries-old tradition of scale-degree naming… but the precise, mathematical, Excel-verifiable logic behind chord construction, chord extensions, modal chord substitutions, and the newly introduced concept of Ocean-Note Chords.
This isn’t music theory as taught in schools.
This is music theory rebuilt — the way it should have been built from the start — using Excel’s clarity, structure, and ability to enforce logic.
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A Course for Two Worlds — Business Professionals & Musicians
Just like the rest of the series, this course is designed with a dual purpose:
For Business & Technology Professionals
You’ll gain advanced Excel mastery through real-world exercises that don’t feel like homework.
You’ll build:
• Interval calculators
• Modal chord generators
• Ocean chord mapping tables
• Complex tables using mixed references & lookup automation
• Scale-degree vs modal-point translation engines
• Chord extension tables using structured logic
• Root-rotation and modal-rotation frameworks
• Fretboard simulation tools using spreadsheet logic
You’re practicing Excel — but in a genuinely engaging context, not another sales or financial dataset.
For Musicians
You’ll learn a clearer, more intuitive system of music theory —
without legacy inconsistencies, note-name confusion, and historical baggage.
You will see music as:
• Nodes instead of letters
• Distances instead of intervals
• Modes as continents
• Non-modal points as ocean notes (1.5, 2.5, 3.5… etc.)
• Chords as formulas, not guesswork
It’s the fastest path to understanding chords, modes, progressions, and improvisation — with Excel verifying everything you do.
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What This Course Covers (High-Level)
Scale-Degree Chords vs Modal Chords
Why the traditional system produces naming inconsistencies — and how modal-point naming fixes them.
Interval vs Modal Distance Construction
You’ll build Excel tools that use modal distance as the core logic for constructing chords, scales, and rotations.
Ocean Notes & Ocean Chords
A truly new concept introduced in this course:
the five “ocean points” between modes (1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 5.5, 6.5)
— and how they create a complete 12-point chord logic system.
You’ll build Excel generators for Ionian+, Lydian+, Mixolydian+, Aeolian+, and Dorian+ ocean chords.
Fretboard Mapping Through Excel Logic
Convert linear interval tables into multi-string guitar logic using Excel’s structured formula design.
13-Note Extended Chord Construction
You’ll build a full extended chord table using modal distance logic instead of traditional scale-degree naming.
Related Modes vs Same-Root Modes
You’ll design Excel tools that switch between:
• Same-root modal environments
• Related modal environments (same 7-note collection shifted)
• Ocean-note modal environments
Excel Skills Gained
Across all of this you’ll learn:
• Absolute & mixed references (business-critical skill)
• Lookup automation (XLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH)
• Multi-axis rotation logic
• Conditional wrapping (reset after 12 notes)
• Structured chord-construction functions
You build all of these while learning the optimal way to understand music.
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Why This Course Exists
Because Excel is the perfect environment for redesigning systems that grew messy over centuries.
And music theory — with its enharmonic contradictions, inconsistent naming, and backwards interval logic — is the perfect system to rebuild.
You’ll come away from this course with:
• A strong Excel portfolio project
• A complete logical model of chords & modes
• A new way of seeing music that musicians never learned in school
• Tools you can use for life in both business and music
This is the course where Excel stops being a spreadsheet and becomes your lens into how systems should be designed.
Author(s): Robert (Bob) Steele
