The Altered Scale: The One That Breaks All the Rules.
This is the A1 barbecue sauce of all musical scale modes… (As in, it doesn’t go on everything but when it works, it REALLY adds some tang!)
Articles with entry-level theory. Use for courses on guitar, piano, reading music.
This is the A1 barbecue sauce of all musical scale modes… (As in, it doesn’t go on everything but when it works, it REALLY adds some tang!)
What’s going on in this subtly sophisticated pop hit? Turns out… a lot! Let’s break down this romantic ballad off of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
Did Rage Against the Machine use EVERY. SINGLE. NOTE in the scale in their iconic 90s protest song, “Killing in the Name”? Let’s take a look!
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Are all major and minor scales diatonic? Did Pythagoras invent chromaticism? What’s up and what’s down with diatonicism… Find out here!
A lengthy, in-depth look at the self-referential nature of pop music and what that means for legality and creativity in music.
New to songwriting? It always helps to create pull for your listener using harmony. Here are some chord options for resolving tension!
An analysis of how Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score for Joker helps anchor the narrative and characters in both their story and their timeline.
What happens when a computer decides what makes popular songs formulaic versus iconic? Total controversy. But let’s take a deeper look…
In this post, courtesy of Reverb Machine’s Dan Carr, we break down the chord progressions of Thundercat’s most beloved jazz-inspired songs.