How to find new approaches to blues soloing – using fingerstyle improv ideas and Roy Buchanan-inspired licks
Jim Oblon takes an eight-bar rhythm and applies some fingerpicking ideas that could take help get you out of a jam and put ...
How Darkness’ Justin Hawkins learned diminished chords from a reggae-soul icon
The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and ...
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A Composer Breaks Down The Music Theory Behind Doechii’s Hit “Denial Is A River”
Making music is a form of therapy for Doechii. Rather than crafting songs that fit current pop-music expectations, she writes ...
Dua Lipa wins ‘Levitating’ copyright case with a little help from Ed Sheeran
Judge referenced Sheeran’s precedent-setting 2023 victory over his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, which was accused of ...
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Learn how polychords and slash chords hold the key to musical exploration, just as scales do
Chords, scales, and harmony are subjects you could ... This isn’t always easy on the guitar, but the Em/maj9 (E minor and B major combined) in Example 5 is a great example.
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'It’s the piano': Plainfield's Melanie Hernandez earns state medal with secret weapon
You think the nuances of wrestling are tough, how about deciphering the chords in major and minor scale with the graceful glide of fingers. The Plainfield freshman earned the Cardinals’ first-ever ...
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Dua Lipa wins ‘Levitating’ copyright case with a little help from Ed Sheeran
the use of a minor scale”. Court documents show that US district judge Katherine Polk Failla determined that the musical phrase shared by “Levitating” and the plaintiffs’ works amounted to ...
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'It’s the piano': Plainfield's Melanie Hernandez earns state medal with secret weapon
You think the nuances of wrestling are tough, how about deciphering the chords in major and minor scale with the graceful glide of fingers. The Plainfield freshman earned the Cardinals’ first ...
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Get more out of one of guitar’s most important shapes with 5 chords that demystify the dominant 7th
It seems reasonable to assume these consist of the root, 3rd, 5th and 7th of the scale ... The term ‘minor’ refers to the b3rd. This is a C minor chord with a dominant or b7th.
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Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson: A Piano Duet of Ice and Fire
The fluidity of “Wasserklavier” gradually transitioned into Franz Schubert’s “Fantasie in F minor, D. 940,” a piece characterized by its detached notes, percussive chords, and staccatos ...
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'Mo' on Netflix breaks stereotypes, resonates with Michigan's Arab and Muslim communities
He was required to attend these meetings after his green card was revoked more than 15 years earlier due to two minor offenses ... father's humanized on a large scale in Western media, the ...
Mumford and Sons haven’t lost their mojo post Winston Marshall’s ‘cancellation’
Following a winning streak of three consecutive US chart-topping albums (and two in the UK), Marcus Mumford’s folk-rock ...