What’s Your Favorite Song to Wake Up to?
In Ep. 33 of Themes and Variation, we chat about songs that are perfect to wake up to with drummer and artist, Sarah Galdes.
Articles about the theory behind popular songs, history of theory within genres, etc.
In Ep. 33 of Themes and Variation, we chat about songs that are perfect to wake up to with drummer and artist, Sarah Galdes.
Making chords from the scale you’re in is fine, but borrowing notes and bringing them in from other scales and modes, now that’s fun!
In this edition of Soundfly Basics, we run down the usefulness and potential applications of utilizing tension in your chord progressions.
What a music theory book at age 13 taught me about how to look at chords, chord progressions and the emotions they’re capable of manifesting.
Ep. 30 of Themes and Variation features Peter Martin, jazz pianist and composer, educator, and founder of the e-learning site, Open Studio.
Modern songwriters, producers and artists are reinventing the way jazz idioms and foundations are applied in modern pop. Let’s break it down!
For this special Episode 26 of “Themes and Variation,” we sit down with songwriter Max Swan about his favorite wildly emotional songs.
For this special Episode 25 of “Themes and Variation,” we chat with RJD2 about sampling, song idea fodder, and his new course on Soundfly!
Thoughts on Lorde’s new single, a familiar ’50s rock groove, and the hyper-litigious state of the music industry’s copyright law.
In this analysis, pop music theorist Ben Morss shows how The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is built from four-note scale segments.