When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally ...

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 ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rigid, pumping eighth-note chords can be found in most genres, but are particularly effective in ...

In the BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, panellists are sometimes asked to sing 'one song to the tune of another'. Hilarious results ensue when the words of one song fit the rhythm and ...

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 ...

A few years ago I was in the studio cutting new demos in Nashville, TN. I grabbed a guitar and started sharing my latest song to a group of A-list session players. Halfway through my intro, the guitar ...

Recent work suggests that every culture may develop its own rather arbitrary rules for what music sounds right and wrong. In the arts world, the shock of the new usually fades fast. Picasso we can ...

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 ...