The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue ... could be whether you want to work in a major or minor key, depending on the outlook you want to portray.

Lo-fi is to audio what black-and-white or sepia-tinted film is to ... In this case, the idea is to be able to create your own loops or chord progressions, although this knowledge is useful beyond ...

Which comes first: chords or meloody? That's the chicken and egg question facing any music maker staring at a blank DAW screen, and there's no right answer as to which you need to nail first. And ...

Let’s start with the C major scale - seven notes from C to B, played on the white notes ... upper case for major chords and lower or minor/diminished. Step 4: Whether we use Arabic or Roman numerals, ...

popular songs are 67 percent likely to follow it up with a D minor chord. The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life” follows that progression; so does “Float On” by Modest Mouse. (You can play the ...

or ‘relative minor’ of Chord I, and this similarity means that it still feels comfortably related to both Chord IV and Chord V. There’s no doubt that the human ear is hooked on this repetitive chord ...

When I listen to the songs in question, Mr. Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” I hear a I, IV, V progression with a minor III chord included (a I ...