As an electronic musician, it’s important to be able to create and finesse the sounds of your productions. The ability to craft unique synth patches, shape and sequence distinctive beats and layer, ...

One perennial issue for songwriters is what to do when they’ve come up with a melody line and need a chord progression to fit it. So, we’ll show you how to establish the key your melody might be in, ...

Step 9: So now that we have the diatonic chords all identified and labelled up, we can try to find a progression that might fit our melody notes. The most commonly-used chords in any key are the ...

It's very simple to join one chord to the next in the context of a chord progression, and one of the tools in your armoury ...

The Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator is a web experiment by Jake Albaugh that allows you to generate different musical scores based on a variety of different inputs.

And although the chords themselves are different, the chord types, distance between each other, and resulting sound, harmony and musical effect is the same. Try both progressions our one after the ...

From the outside, Taylor Swift's impromptu performance of her hit "Shake It Off" on Tuesday night in Nashville at the Tight ...

However, one of the biggest ways of all is via the song’s chord progression(s). ... if you don’t know is 1, 4, 5 expressed – as chords in music theory usually are – in roman numerals.

And it’s not just modern music. The ‘four chord song’ has been around since Pachelbel’s Canon around the turn of the 18th century. These four chords are the magic ... The reasons that the progression ...

"A chord progression alone is not a song, and therefore recycling the same chord progression is not necessarily a bad thing." Dr O'Regan agrees. "If you think of early folk or early country music ...