Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have a key change, but it's getting harder and harder to find in top hits. Where did all the key changes go? Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to ...

Songwriting is a lot like cooking: when a song is bland you can spice it up with some flavor, or you can give a great song an extra kick. The secret ingredient? The subtle-yet-effective key change. It ...

As guitarist Nigel Tufnel despairs to director Marty DiBergi in Spinal Tap, once your amps are turned up all the way to 11, “Where do you go from there? Where?” Many songwriters stuck in a creative ...

Mocky knows what's up. I say this not just because the Canadian-born artist (born Dominic Salole) has recently relocated to our fair city of Los Angeles, where he's become an essential part of the ...

Avi Spillers wanted to play the violin even as a young child, but at first, her parents weren’t sure she was serious. “There were multiple Christmases when I had ‘violin’ at the top of my list. They ...

Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have something in common: a key change, like the one you hear in Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." But key changes have become harder to ...

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