A great way to get started writing a song is to use a well-known chord progression. Certain progressions have been used thousands of times throughout the history of recorded music, so there’s no ...

Often when discussing songwriting, we divide it into its two main elements, words and music. But just as lyrics contain a multitude of sub-categories and considerations, so does music. It contains the ...

What is the ii-V-I? A chord progression is part of the foundation of most Western music and you may have come across a few already. The I-IV-V is a staple of blues, folk, and pop while the I-V-vi-IV ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sounds themselves vary massively from delicate acoustic guitars and rich electric pianos to gently pumping synthwave pads.

Hookpad is a web app for music composition, and it’s also a killer way to learn about music theory. Hookpad and its companion theory app/book have been around for a while. The problem was, it only ...

Midi-2-the-Max tells us that M2TM CHORDS is a MIDI Tool for Ableton Live 12 that lets you generate chord progressions of any length and complexity, by just typing chord symbols as you would do with ...

Audanika, makers of the SoundPrism Pro MIDI controller for iOS, tells us that their new SoundPrism Electro is a musical instrument which makes it easy to come up with ...

Nick Millevoi is Premier Guitar’s senior editor and co-host of the 100 Guitarists podcast. His work as a journalist and musician reflects his curiosity for the ever-expanding possibilities of guitar ...