There are three main strategies songwriters use when they are choosing a chord progression for their next song. This article will go over some tried-and-true formulas in songwriting, a bit of music ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In music theory, an extension is similar in concept to a house extension, except that, rather ...

It's easier than you think to extend and enrich the harmonic language of a track. Sometimes you just need notes 'outside' a chord When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

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 ...