Just weeks after Cory Wong broke the internet with his divisive claims about music theory and what it takes to be an elite guitarist, acoustic guitar extraordinaire Tommy Emmanuel has opened up ...

These discoveries, based on findings in neuroscience, music, and psychology, support Neural Resonance Theory (NRT). An international study co-authored by McGill psychologist Caroline Palmer ...

What if you could compose an original song in minutes—without ever picking up an instrument or knowing a single note of music theory? Enter Riffusion, a new platform that uses the power of ...

Moten, a cultural theorist and poet, uses music as the inroad for essays exploring everything from Karl Marx’s concept of the speechless commodity and Theodor Adorno’s troubling music ...

From half diminished chords to phrygian modes; music theory can be both a help and a hindrance to many, but do you really need it in order to be a great musician? When you purchase through links on ...

They have suggested—and provided preliminary evidence for—the theory that music is not an unnecessary by-product, but is instead a critical and core function of our brain. Consider the ...

The universe is built on harmonies. The Pythagoreans had it right when they married mathematics, music, and the cosmos. Just as mathematical patterns underlie the musical scales and intervals most ...

We recommend a music theory course for anyone interested in creating music. While you may know what melody, rhythm, and harmony are, you'll better understand music when you dive deeply into a ...

Some people spend a lifetime studying music theory - and there’s certainly value in doing that - but if you just want to know the basics, fast, ToneGym’s new crash course could be well worth taking.

A research paper published in the Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences titled “Neurobiological Foundations For The Theory Of Harmony In Western Tonal Music” goes so far as to posit that ...

After reading his takes on the music theory behind several historic hits, we invited him to turn his focus on more current singles. Welcome to our new column In Theory. Earlier this month ...