The Music Interval Theory Podcast

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Many composers feel stuck writing the same old ideas, wondering why their music doesn’t sound as original as they want. Inside the Music Interval Theory Academy (MITA) and our community (The Circle of Interval Magicians), we reveal the deeper architecture behind music, the interval magic that helps you break free from the generic sound and step into your own creative power. The truth is, the composers you admire weren’t born with secret gifts. They learned "spells." They trained their ears, sharpened their instincts, and discovered the hidden structures that shape emotional storytelling. And you can learn them, too. If you’re the kind of composer who wants to tell powerful musical stories, confidently, clearly, and with your own unmistakable voice, then you already belong here. You just need the right tools, the right guidance, and a way to finally see how music truly works beneath the surface. Conventional theory often leaves composers confused or boxed in, and that’s why so many feel overwhelmed or stuck. But inside our world, we approach music differently. We teach you the language of intervals: a transparent, proven methodology that gives you control, clarity, and creative freedom. You’re not just learning theory. You’re stepping into a circle — a circle of composers who believe music is both craft and magic, structure and intuition. And this knowledge belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone else. Welcome to the Music Interval Theory Podcast. Welcome to the Circle.

Episode Date
Fix the Score, Not the Knobs
Jun 12, 2026
Diatonic vs. Intervallic - Which One is Better
Jun 06, 2026
5 Spells Every Composer Needs
May 29, 2026
The Note Your Scale Won't Allow
May 27, 2026
The 48-Hour Composition Challenge
May 25, 2026
Color Doesn't Belong to a Genre
May 22, 2026
When Lines Do What Chords Cannot
May 20, 2026
Think In Energy, Not Chords
May 18, 2026
Fix The Context, Not The Chord
May 15, 2026
Momentum Over Perfection
May 13, 2026
When Simple Is Strong
May 11, 2026
The Power of A Story
May 08, 2026
Stop Composing Alone
May 06, 2026
Why Basics Unlock Magic
May 04, 2026
Find Your Musical Edge (With Interval Theory)
May 01, 2026
Balancing Complexity and Simplicity
Apr 29, 2026
Making Notes and Clusters Belong
Apr 27, 2026
Musicians Love Patterns
Apr 24, 2026
The Art of Singable Lines
Apr 22, 2026
Hearing Intervals Differently
Apr 20, 2026
Bridging from Diatonic Writing to the Intervals
Apr 17, 2026
Protecting the Actor's Moment
Apr 15, 2026
The Pedal Tone Reset
Apr 13, 2026
Groove Without More Notes
Apr 10, 2026
Start With Energy, And The Notes Will Follow
Apr 08, 2026
When Birds Become Bassoons
Apr 06, 2026
Pattern Education And Sounding Generic
Apr 03, 2026
The Secret to Motion Without Changing Harmony
Apr 01, 2026
Seamless Storytelling In Your Music
Mar 30, 2026
Why You Feel Slow When You Compose (And How to Fix It)
Mar 27, 2026
From Scale Prison to Interval Freedom
Mar 25, 2026
The Secret Life of Interval Resolution
Mar 23, 2026
Recovering Like a Pro
Mar 20, 2026
Escape Overthinking with Musical Finger Painting
Mar 18, 2026
Good Orchestration is Strong Storytelling
Mar 16, 2026
Think in Lines, Not Stacks
Mar 13, 2026
Why Your Harmony Sounds Wrong (Even When It Looks Right)
Mar 11, 2026
Composition Techniques Don't Expire
Mar 09, 2026
How I Composed My Best Boss Music Tracks
Mar 06, 2026
Orchestration Is Your Best EQ
Mar 04, 2026
Dissonance Is A Choice
Mar 02, 2026
Stop Fixing the Minor Second and Start Controlling It Instead
Feb 28, 2026
It's Not About the Tricks, It's About the Time You Save
Feb 26, 2026
From 12 Intervals to Just 6 Personalities
Feb 24, 2026
Why Hollywood Scores Are Written in no Key
Feb 22, 2026
From Lines to the Orchestration with Counterpoint
Feb 20, 2026
The Lie of Perfect Spelling
Feb 18, 2026
Why Music Theory Shouldn't Feel Like Detention
Feb 16, 2026
Why I Use My Keyboard Like a Ruler
Feb 14, 2026
How to Train Your Ear Without a Piano
Feb 12, 2026
Unlocking Chord Function with the Harmonic Series
Feb 10, 2026
From Triad to Magic with Scaling
Feb 08, 2026
It's Not a Bug, It's Your Voice
Feb 06, 2026
Become Your Own Composition Coach (With This One Simple Habit)
Feb 04, 2026
When Feedback Feels Like Magic
Feb 02, 2026
The Spicy Magic of the 13-Interval
Jan 31, 2026
Unfinished but Unstoppable
Jan 29, 2026
You Don't Find Your Voice But You Write Your Way Into It
Jan 27, 2026
Loud Is Not Enough to Make Your Orchestration Climax Pop
Jan 25, 2026
Why Titles Matter More Than You Think
Jan 23, 2026
Dark Underscore and Silence
Jan 20, 2026
The One Thing I Do Before Composing a Film Cue
Jan 19, 2026
Stop Overwriting - Clarity Is the Real Magic
Jan 17, 2026
Stop Starting with the Intro
Jan 15, 2026
Scaling of Triads - Live Session
Jan 13, 2026
The Magical Engine Inside Your Music
Jan 11, 2026
Sketch First, Orchestration Second
Jan 09, 2026
Why Your Music Moves Too Fast (And How to Fix It)
Jan 07, 2026
Why Repetition isn't Lazy ... It's Smart Storytelling
Jan 04, 2026
Why 2026 Is the Year of Interval Magic
Jan 01, 2026
How a Tiny Interval Turn Brought My Sketch to Life
Dec 29, 2025
The Secret Glue Behind Great Film and Game Cues
Dec 25, 2025
Why Avoiding Doublings Makes Your Music Weaker
Dec 22, 2025
The Secret Vocal Trick That Makes Your Strings Come Alive
Dec 18, 2025
A Solid Low End Can Sound Like Sub-Bass Magic
Dec 15, 2025
Stop forcing the mode, Start following the emotion
Dec 09, 2025
The Magic Of Diatonic Thirds
Dec 05, 2025
Character First, Perfection Later
Dec 03, 2025
The Day A Client Shocked Me In The Studio
Dec 01, 2025
Orchestration is NOT Decoration
Nov 28, 2025
STOP Muddy Strings - Fluent Line Tricks Every Composer Needs
Nov 21, 2025
Scale Your Triads and Get A Great Disney Sound
Nov 14, 2025
Inside a Real Composition Session
Nov 07, 2025
FIX Boring Chords with THIS Interval-Based Move
Oct 31, 2025
Everything you need to know about Great Part Writing in 16 Minutes
Oct 24, 2025
Clarity And Transparency in Your Orchestrations
Oct 17, 2025
3 Orchestration Concepts you must know (plus 3 Bonus Tips)
Oct 10, 2025
The Secret of the Low End (What Great Orchestrators Already Know)
Oct 03, 2025
Why Gathering Before Sketching Changes Everything
Sep 26, 2025
How to Use Counterpoint in Modern Composition
Sep 19, 2025
The Harmony Trick Every Composer Needs for Better Music
Sep 12, 2025
From Chaos to Clarity
Sep 05, 2025
Why 10 minutes a day can change your music forever
Aug 29, 2025
No Samples, No Tricks - Just Sibelius and NotePerformer
Aug 22, 2025
A Balcony, a Jazz Festival, and a Lesson in Sound
Aug 15, 2025
When the Director Talks to the Composer
Aug 08, 2025
Steve and the Spells
Aug 01, 2025
The Scoring Workshop Recap and Insights
Jul 25, 2025
The day I decided to break the rules
Jul 18, 2025
Why you don't finish your music, and how to fix it easily
Jul 11, 2025
Music Theory for Composers - And what no Teacher told me
Jul 04, 2025
122 - Why some melodies STICK in your head
Jun 27, 2025
121 - Why Most Film Scores Sound The Same and How to Fix that
Jun 20, 2025
120 - Transform Your Sketch FAST - Using Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Jun 13, 2025
119 - Sketch like a Pro - Beethoven's Trick Still Works
Jun 06, 2025
One Sketch, Three Worlds - How to Orchestrate Emotion with Intervals
May 30, 2025
The Interval Sketch Method
May 23, 2025
Why Counterpoint Never Worked for Me - Until I did THIS
May 16, 2025
What No Teacher Ever Told Me About the Overtone Series
May 09, 2025
How I Compose Without Thinking in Chords
May 02, 2025
The Best Exercise to Boost your Line Writing Skills
Apr 25, 2025
My Advice for Interval Theory Beginners - START HERE!
Apr 18, 2025
Breaking and Building at the same time!
Apr 11, 2025
Avoid These Boring Chord Progressions
Apr 04, 2025
How to Derive More Music From a Theme
Mar 28, 2025
My Full Scoring Process For Animation
Mar 21, 2025
What you need to know about Interval Theory
Mar 14, 2025
Composition vs. Production - What do you need REALLY as a Composer
Mar 07, 2025
Bernard Herrmann - Intervallic Deep Dive
Feb 28, 2025
Diatonic VS. Intervallic Theory - Which one is better?
Feb 21, 2025
103 - My 3 Steps To Creating Unique-Sounding Compositions
Jan 17, 2025
102 - Interval Theory & The Orchestration - Insights For Composing Action Music
Jan 10, 2025
101 - Your Letter to the Musician
Dec 20, 2024
100 - Music Publishing Rights - Big Studios vs. Small Clients
Dec 13, 2024
099 - Harmony in Collaboration - Lessons from the brass section
Dec 06, 2024
098 - Scoring the Moment - Pirate Scene
Nov 29, 2024
097 - How to improve your Composition Skills
Nov 22, 2024
096 - Composition Techniques vs. Creativity
Nov 15, 2024
095 - The Mixolydian Mode in the Genre of Romantic Comedy
Nov 08, 2024
094 - From Schneider to Disney
Nov 01, 2024
093 - How I Modulate to Any Tonal Center Easily
Oct 25, 2024
092 - Blending Interval Theory with Diatonic Thinking
Oct 18, 2024
091 - Let's Create Some Mystery Music
Oct 11, 2024
090 - I Followed Advice From Jerry Goldsmith
Oct 04, 2024
089 - Improving Sound & Skill
Sep 27, 2024
088 - Orchestration Techniques That Have Served Me Well
Sep 20, 2024
087 - Enhancing the Dorian Mode With Interval Theory
Aug 30, 2024
086 - How I Pump More Energy Into Static Chord Progressions
Aug 23, 2024
085 - Composing with Chromatic Transitions
Aug 16, 2024
084 - The Use of Percussion in Orchestral Works
Aug 09, 2024
083 - The Musical Influences of a Master Composer
Aug 02, 2024
082 - Ethics of Using AI in Music
Jul 26, 2024
081 - My Composition Tricks for Film Noir-Style Music
Jul 19, 2024
080 - Sketch Development on the Piano
Jul 12, 2024
079 - Ethics in Music
Jul 05, 2024
78 - Playing the Same Music Through All the Modes
Jun 28, 2024
077 - Fluent Part Writing
Jun 21, 2024
076 - My Musical Influences
Jun 14, 2024
075 - How I Compose An Interesting Canon
Jun 07, 2024
074 - A Deep Discussion about Creativity
May 31, 2024
073 - Polytonality For Piano
May 24, 2024
072 - Orchestration Masterclass on Action-Adventure
May 17, 2024
071 - Dave from the 52Cues Podcast Interviews TC & Frank
May 10, 2024
070 - With Pro Musician John Isley
May 03, 2024
069 - 5 Ways to Use Chromatic Lines with Scales
Apr 26, 2024
068 - Orchestration Insights
Apr 19, 2024
067 - Whistle all over the place
Apr 12, 2024
066 - Scoring Workshop Recap
Apr 06, 2024
065 - Let's Talk About Bass
Mar 15, 2024
064 - From Sketch to Symphony With Marc Bercovitz
Mar 08, 2024
063 - 52Cues Interviewing TC and Frank
Mar 01, 2024
062 - Guitar Gymnastics
Feb 23, 2024
061 - Crafting the Extraordinary - A Piano With 112 Keys
Feb 16, 2024
060 - What If Beethven Was A Film Composer
Feb 09, 2024
059 - 5 Composition Techniques You Should Know
Feb 02, 2024
058 - All About Rhythm
Jan 26, 2024
057 - Unleash Your Creative Potential
Jan 19, 2024
056 - Composing On Guitar - Part 8 - Orchestral Composition
Jan 15, 2024
055 - Composing On Guitar - Part 7 - Voice-Leading & Why
Jan 13, 2024
054 - Composing On Guitar - Part 6 - Application
Jan 11, 2024
053 - Composing On Guitar - Part 5 - Connecting the Intervals
Jan 09, 2024
052 - Composing On Guitar - Part 4 - Open Intervals
Jan 07, 2024
051 - Composing On Guitar - Part 3 - Tweaking The Major Scale
Jan 05, 2024
050 - Composing On Guitar - Part 2 - Spice Up Your Playing
Jan 03, 2024
049 - Composing On Guitar - Part 1 - Dominant Intervals
Jan 01, 2024
048 - Orchestration Tips for an Epic Sound
Dec 15, 2023
047 - The Emotions of the Intervals
Dec 01, 2023
046 - Exploring the Work of A Master Composer
Nov 15, 2023
045 - 2 True Stories from the Music Industry
Nov 01, 2023
044 - Why Composers Need to Have Faith
Oct 15, 2023
043 - How To Write Long-Form Compositions
Oct 01, 2023
042 - A Taste Of Flamenco Ukulele
Sep 15, 2023
041 - A Reliable Process To Repeating Your Musical Successes
Sep 01, 2023
040 - Live Guitar Session with MITA Members
Aug 15, 2023
039 - 9 Traps Untrained Composers Fall Into
Aug 01, 2023
038 - Gathering with 1s on the Guitar
Jul 15, 2023
037 - The MITA Philosophy
Jul 01, 2023
036 - Getting more out of Scale #1 (The Major Scale)
Jun 15, 2023
035 - The Power of Your Demoreel
Jun 01, 2023
034 - Analyzing Prokofiev with Interval Theory
May 15, 2023
033 - 1st-Hand Insights from a Pro Composer
May 01, 2023
032 - Basin Street Blues on the Guitar
Apr 15, 2023
031 - Misconceptions about the Music Industry
Apr 01, 2023
030 - 11s and 10s in Blues
Mar 15, 2023
029 - Interview with AI about Music
Mar 01, 2023
028 - Unlocking the Secrets of 9th-Chords
Feb 15, 2023
027 - The Business Booster
Feb 01, 2023
026 - The Book of 1
Jan 15, 2023
025 - My Top 10 Gathering Techniques
Jan 01, 2023
024 - Bitter Fruit
Dec 15, 2022
023 - The Top 3 Traps Most Composers Fall Into
Dec 01, 2022
022 - How I learned the Music Business
Nov 15, 2022
021 - The Sketching Piano
Nov 01, 2022
020 - Insights from Interval Theory Master Composers
Oct 15, 2022
019 - How We Hear
Oct 01, 2022
018 - Stop Mystifying Negative Harmony
Sep 15, 2022
017 - Orchestrating Toodles
Sep 01, 2022
016 - Don't Let the Piano Fool You
Aug 15, 2022
015 - Triads - The Final Frontier
Aug 01, 2022
014 - The Unsung Hero in Music Composition
Jul 15, 2022
013 - Pentatonic Dominant
Jul 01, 2022
012 - Sketch Quickly - Here's Why
Jun 15, 2022
011 - Power Pentatonic
Jun 01, 2022
010 - The 3-Step Process to Composition
May 15, 2022
009 - Casual Co-Host Conversations
May 01, 2022
008 - Using the OI '11' and '10'
Apr 15, 2022
007 - What You Need to Know About '13's
Apr 01, 2022
006 - The Lydian Mode Gathering
Mar 15, 2022
005 - 7 Reasons Why You Should Sketch
Mar 01, 2022
004 - The Nature of '1'
Feb 15, 2022
003 - The Big Picture of Music Theory
Feb 01, 2022
002 - The DNA of Creativity
Jan 15, 2022
001 - Why you should listen to this podcast
Jan 01, 2022
Trailer - Welcome to the MITA Podcast
Dec 29, 2021