When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jun Sato/WireImage Chords, scales, and harmony are subjects you could spend your whole ...

Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song. You might decide “right, this will be in C minor,” or you might just string together a seemingly ...

In the early '90s grunge took the world by storm. A stream of bands from the US Pacific Northwest, and especially Seattle, arrived on the music scene with their stripped-back, raw sounds, emotive ...

MiQ Limited has announced PLAYER, a free iOS app that analyzes songs from your device's music library and then shows you how to play those songs with chords, keys and song structure. PLAYER uses a ...

Each piece of music, be it a song, symphony or concerto, is written in a specific ‘key’. But what do we mean when we refer to a musical key, why are there 24 of them, and how do composers choose which ...

Struggling with chords in difficult keys? Don’t worry - you’re not alone! In this video, I’ll show you a simple way to rethink tricky chord shapes using a little music theory magic. You’ll learn how ...

Granted Software has released ReMIDI, a tool designed to enhance a keyboard performance by automatically changing notes into chords and chords into arpeggios or strums. The US$14.95 software is ...

The "Neapolitan 6th" chord (N6) is another sonority whose definition is based on the triad that it makes, which is a vertical perspective that glosses over its actual horizontal function. It is ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

With its nifty interface, preset patterns and progressions, and linked modules, Captain Plugins is an invaluable compositional aid. Smooth, intuitive workflow. Highly customisable progressions. Great ...