[100% Off] Microsoft Excel Music Theory-Scale Degrees Redesigned
Systems Thinking for Business Professionals – Redesigning and Antiquated System Part 2
Requirements
- Basic familiarity with Microsoft Excel (entering data, simple formulas, navigating worksheets).
- No prior music theory knowledge required—everything is explained from the ground up.
- Musicians with traditional theory backgrounds are welcome, but not required.
- A willingness to think analytically and explore system redesign from a modern perspective.
- Microsoft Excel (any modern version: Windows, Mac, or Office 365).
- Optional: Ability to download and open the provided practice workbook.
Description
Excel + Music Theory: Rebuilding the System Musicians Deserve
This course uses one big, beautiful mess to teach you Excel and systems thinking:
traditional music theory.
For hundreds of years, musicians have been forced to learn an inconsistent, patched-together system: scale degrees that change their identity depending on context, chord names that hide what they actually do, and “modes” explained like mystical trivia instead of clean, logical structure. It does not behave like something you’d design today for a DAW, a modern curriculum, or a data-driven world.
So in this course, we treat music theory like what it really is:
an antiquated legacy system screaming for refactor.
Using Microsoft Excel as our design lab, we rebuild the core of tonal music from the ground up:
We turn the fretboard and keyboard into a map with fixed “continents” (absolute mode locations) instead of constantly renaming every city every time the “key” changes.
We convert the old scale-degree system into a stable absolute mode numbering system that actually behaves like a modern data model.
We design tables and formulas that a future DAW—or a sane theory textbook—could use to teach and compute harmony in a way that’s transparent, navigable, and scalable.
If you’re a business professional, you’ll use this as a rich, real-world redesign project: learning Excel, logic, and system architecture by cleaning up one of the most stubbornly messy frameworks on earth.
If you’re a musician or music student, you’ll finally see a version of theory that behaves the way your brain and your instrument actually work—one that would dramatically improve learning if music schools and software ever adopted it. You won’t just memorize rules; you’ll help build a clearer system that exposes why the old one feels so confusing, and how a better structure makes everything—keys, modes, chords, progressions—snap into place.
By the end of the course, you won’t just be “better at Excel” or “better at theory.”
You’ll have participated in designing a next-generation music theory engine—
one that could power smarter DAWs, clearer curricula, and faster learning for the next wave of musicians.
Author(s): Robert (Bob) Steele
