Which comes first: chords or meloody? That's the chicken and egg question facing any music maker staring at a blank DAW screen, and there's no right answer as to which you need to nail first. And ...

Building a lo-fi arrangement which really sticks in a listener's head requires a bit of theoretical thinking When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

In music theory, an extension is similar in concept to a house extension, except that, rather than three-bed semis, we’re dealing with three-note chords. By definition, to extend is to make something ...

Over the last two columns, we looked at various ways to craft melodic solos over alternating relative major and minor chords. As a basis for study, I used the 16-bar chord progression from my original ...

A lot of the elements that make pop music successful relate to it being catchy and familiar. As a songwriter, there are many ways to engender this feeling in listeners, to do with song structure, ...

in this video I'll be showing you everything that you need to know to start playing chord progressions right away we're going to be going over the pop progression SL chords primary chords and even how ...

Have you ever wanted to learn chords but you’ve never got around to it? We may have found you an interesting way to learn how to play chords through the use of the iPad and iPhone. Canadian startup ...

Music production assistant KordBot gives users thousands of chords at the touch of a button. In its newly found partnership to empower tech entrepreneurs, Arrow Electronics and crowdfunding platform ...

A lot of the elements that make pop music successful relate to it being catchy and familiar. As a songwriter, there are many ways to engender this feeling in listeners, to do with song structure, ...