A good song is the sum of its parts, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a song’s quality comes down to how much instrumentation is packed into it. These four famous songs in country and rock prove that ...

It’s a real classic and one of Franklin’s finest. Even if you’ve heard this blues rock classic numerous times on classic rock radio, you might not have realized that it only uses one main chord ...

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 ...

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When you start your guitar journey, it’s very easy to imagine that you’d need to learn hundreds ...

When composing a song, not only the melody but also the chord progressions that support that melody are extremely important. However, there are countless chord progression patterns, and searching and ...

In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers tried to quantify which kinds of chord changes people enjoy the most when listening to music. One 2017 study is emblematic of existing thinking ...

If your chord progressions sound a little clunky, try approaching your harmony in an inverse way. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.