Latest about Music Theory And Songwriting
How to understand and use suspended chords
"Sometimes you don't want to be overtly happy or sad and a suspended chord strikes that perfect balance"
“What? How did you even get there!?”: Songwriter Julia Michaels on Sabrina Carpenter’s nonsense lyics
“A lot of the time I feel like it’s hard to tell someone’s personality through their music, and with her you know exactly what you’re getting,” she says
"Nothing is good enough”: Billy Joel explains to John Mayer why he gave up on songwriting
“The writer thing is a curse you take with you throughout life, and when I listen to material or listen to other people’s songs the writer is always at work,” he says
Was John Lennon a good guitarist? And does it really matter?
"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”
How to understand key signatures
“The way that sharps and flats are organised is far from random or chaotic”
"The importance of scales cannot be understated": How to easily grasp scale theory
How to get a handle on scale theory
Cat Burns releases “unapologetic” cover of Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag
A new version of the song that was designed to sound like “Metallica, AC/DC, Paul Simon and James Taylor from the waist up,” and “LL Cool J and Public Enemy” from the waist down
How to create satisfying lo-fi chords and progressions
Think smart and consider the underlying theory of your lo-fi arrangement
