Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, as we are the ones banging out the root notes! But there are ...

These classic rock chord progressions were not common at the time, and that's precisely what made their songs such big hits.

It's easier than you think to extend and enrich the harmonic language of a track. Sometimes you just need notes 'outside' a chord When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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This primer in 13th chords will give you five voicings to use in your playing – and an explanation on how they get their name ...

The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within a key signature When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Thanks to advances in technology and the internet, it is now possible for anyone to learn a musical instrument from the comfort of their own home, using just a smartphone. Whether it's the guitar, ...

In music, an interval is the distance between two notes. In the example below, count up from and including the lowest note up to the highest pitched note to identify the interval. This interval is ...

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 ...