The harmony workbook
€18Exercises from the course on chords, voice leading and cadences, with room to write and the answers at the back.
Music theory and harmony
Harmony, explained slowly.
Lessons at the piano in Utrecht or on a video call, for singers, guitarists and composers. Private lessons, a small group class and score reviews, by inquiry.
Private harmony lesson
from€60
One hour at the piano, or online. Bring a piece you are stuck on, or start from the beginning, and we go at your pace.
60 minutes · written notes · one follow-up email
Small group class
from€35
The spring seminar: eight people around one upright piano, a chord at a time, with a short exercise to take home.
Six evenings · up to eight people · workbook included
Score review
from€40
Send a score of your own. I mark where the harmony works, where it wanders, and what to try next.
Up to 4 pages · a marked PDF · 30 minutes on a call
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At home
A course and a workbook
For the weeks between lessons, or if Utrecht is too far. Both are what I teach at the piano, filmed calmly and written down.
Score-reading sheets
€9Twelve short pages for following a score as it plays, from a hymn to a string quartet.
Harmony in ten weeks
€129Ten weeks from the triad to the modulation. One lecture a week at the piano and a short exercise after each, for singers, guitarists and composers.
About
Thijs Hoekstra
I have taught harmony and counterpoint at a conservatoire in Utrecht for forty years. Most of my students could already play. What they had not been shown was why one chord follows another.
So I now teach singers, guitarists and composers who never had those lessons, at the piano in Utrecht and online. I play three notes, and we talk about what they do.
He explained in ten minutes what three books had not.
The letter
A short letter on harmony
One chord, one idea and one exercise, once a month, written at the piano. Free, and short enough to read over coffee.