Learning to read or write music? Here’s a quick-yet-deep primer on how key signatures work across major, minor, modal, blues and other tonalities.
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Scale Mode Cheat Sheet: How to Remember Each and Every Mode
Modes and Key Signatures have a variety of different characteristics and are great for outside-the-box songwriting. Here’s a cheat sheet to remember them!
How to Make a Boring Chord Progression Sound New and Fun
Here are five ways to spice up that same old chord stuff you always find yourself playing and create a progression that sounds new and fresh!
Quick Tracks Nº 8: Change the Tonality of a Popular Song
Welcome back to Quick Tracks! Every other week, we’ll send you another short composition, performance, or production…
Chartmania!! I Broke Down Every Song That Reached the Billboard Top 5 in 2017
Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent…
How to Add Bittersweet Emotion to Your Chords with 7ths
You might understand the construction of a chord or triad, but here’s how to make your music express the heartbreaking lilt of a seventh chord.
A Primer on Tool’s Use of the Drop B Tuning
The Drop B tuning has primarily two different variations, both of which have been used…
What Happens When You Mess with the Keys of Iconic Movie Theme Songs?
By Ian Gordon As a self-taught musician, it can be difficult to find the terminology…