Do you wish to create a chilling music score for your amateur horror film, but you have no musical experience? No problem! The Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator is a web experiment by Jake Albaugh ...

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of many ...

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed ...

A lesson in second inversions sounds like advanced physics but it's simply swapping the root note for the 5th, expanding your ...

Getting to grips with GarageBand? Here's how to program a melody and chord sequence using the software's built-in synths When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Why are modern pop songs starting to sound eerily similar? Let’s explore the reason that artists like Taylor Swift are facing plagiarism allegations.

Almost every song in the pop charts is built around the same four chords. And it's nothing new – they're the same three chords that Pachelbel used in his famous Canon. But why do we keep coming back ...

You know you're doing something right as a musician when a particular chord or chord progression gets named after you. Take for instance the Hendrix Chord (that's a dominant seven chord with a sharp ...

Leonard Cohen hides a sneaky message in his lyrics, and it's all amazingly reflected in the music. Below are the somewhat confusing lyrics of the first verse of Leonard Cohen’s best known song, ...