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Tag: music theory
Articles about the theory behind popular songs, history of theory within genres, etc.
Learn Sight Singing and Vocal Harmony Essentials in Our New Course!
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How Blood Orange Uses Chasms of Harmonic Ambiguity on “Negro Swan”
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Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me in a Crown” Is Microtonality Gone Pop
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Why Ariana Grande’s “no tears left to cry” Is So Uplifting, Even in a Minor Key
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Lots and Lots of Colored Dots: A Fretboard Explanation of Pop Tonality
Using the guitar fretboard as a template, music theorist Dean Olivet has redesigned harmonic notation in a colorful, intuitive methodology for learning.
How to Score an Epic Movie Trailer for Global Nuclear Armistice
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On Voice Leading and Tresillo in Troye Sivan & Ariana Grande’s “Dance to This”
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Does Music Theory Still Matter?
Last year, Rihanna’s hit single “Work” started an argument here at Soundfly. We come from…
Making Sense of a Song by Richard Strauss Through Botany
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