Have you ever wondered why a drumbeat makes your foot tap before you even realize it? It’s not magic or mystical ...

Learning guitar starts with excitement – the thrill of the first clean chord, the dream of playing a favourite song, the feel ...

It’s hard to imagine the course pop music might have taken in the psychedelic ’60s had Sylvester Stewart not emerged at that pivotal moment as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, a racially ...

Defined by fast tempos, flowy melodies, and complex chord progressions ... and often includes brass and woodwind instruments like trumpet and saxophone. Afro-Cuban jazz is a subgenre that focuses ...

In this case, the idea is to be able to create your own loops or chord progressions, although this knowledge is useful beyond this genre, too, of course. Apologies in advance for Example 1 ...

Their ideas brought them into an informal club of modernist musicians, including trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie ... as it is the only one of the twelve tones not referenced in the chord progression of ...

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing ...

Russ Johnson on trumpet, Clark Sommers on bass and Dana Hall on drums—with beautiful compositions and cover arrangements. Baker luxuriates in "the incredible freedom you get, without explicit chords, ...

You know you're doing something right as a musician when a particular chord or chord progression gets named after you. Take for instance the Hendrix Chord (that's a dominant seven chord with a ...

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of ...