Because sometimes you need a chord with a little more harmonic intrigue, we take a look at the theory behind embellished ...

If your chord progressions sound a little clunky ... The theory behind this principle is pretty easy; let's start with a triad of C major, which will contain the notes C, E and G. If we place them on ...

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It's very simple to join one chord to the next in the context of a chord progression, and one of the tools in your armoury for achieving a polished musical effect is to use what we call, 'inverted ...

Coming off of their new tour announcement, The Black Keys have given fans some brand new music to go along with it: a brand ...

Jacob Shipley is following up his last EP with his latest effort, “Getting Older.” The five-song record is extremely — most of the time, welcomingly — bare-bones in its production and tackles the ...

Drew Scott has gone ahead and done it again. The beloved HGTV star posted a photo of one of his adorable kids and it’s ...

It didn’t take long for me to hear those chord progressions myself, and soon I could even “chart” simple songs on my own. I began taking guitar lessons with a high school junior who lived a ...

De Laurentis uses the classical musical expression sprezzatura to emphasize a fundamental pursuit in calligraphy — even if a ...

To make a powerful and huge chorus, it needs to start with a bang. A trick to do that is to use impact samples that take up a ...