Knowing how to make chord progressions is essential to writing great music. A chord progression is like a chain of chords ...

Classical-style arpeggios meet Gypsy jazz-flavored minor melodies in this exclusive video lesson from Andy Wood that’s inspired by Elfman’s soundtrack work for Tim Burton ...

Scales form the foundation of music theory, and understanding them is crucial for any budding musician. Digital composition ...

Building an extension to a chord doesn’t require planning permission, but it might require a degree of design. We add 9ths to our extension palette ...

To compare the harmonic relationships among the songs ... Songs were determined to be in a minor key if the number of chords with the tonic as their root and a minor third was greater than the number ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

In five short works by Liszt, Avdeeva’s excellent technique was well up to the challenge of rendering both the composers technical and harmonic innovation ... transitions between the movement’s ...

Ahead of his debut recital at Carnegie Hall, the British pianist talks about finding common connections in a breadth of ...

St. Louis-born Green approached his guitar as if he was a horn player, eschewing chords for lucid ... pushing compositions built on advanced harmonic and melodic conceptions.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II ... themes are weaved into the very fabric of the music: unresolved harmonic progressions, unfinished melodic phrases, and unfettered ...

Because sometimes you need a chord with a little more harmonic intrigue, we take a look at the theory behind embellished ...