PRODUCER WEEK 2025: For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff ... ideas for cool melodies that work naturally with the chord ...

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 ...

By the nature of the song-shaped-beast, you will probably want to save your best or catchiest chord progression, hook or melody for your chorus, but there is nothing to stop you using the same chords, ...

Here we have half a dozen nifty techniques that can be used to transform basic chord structures into far more interesting shapes and progressions. Let's go! A normal C major chord is C-E-G ...

In musical theory parlance, the progression in question goes I ... approach to the progression driven by simple piano chords and a low-key hook. Loading YouTube content Same chords, three very ...

check out a previous In Theory article on Lorde’s “Solar Power.”) The chord movement from EMaj to BMaj to Asus creates a lovely descending chromatic line embedded within the progression: the ...

In a previous In Theory article, we discussed how Kurt ... Furthermore, non-functional harmonic chord progressions often move in unexpected ways. It brings to mind Impressionist music of the ...

Pop music researcher and Top40 Theory founder Asaf Peres tells us he uses the term ... the different production, different chord progression, different lyrics, etc. Those distractions are intentional.