I miss my piano. For decades, a 1944 baby grand piano sat gloriously in the corner of my living room, and now that spot is taken up by a sofa bed, pullout couch, whatever you call a piece of furniture ...

Daniel Levitin, in his popular bestseller entitled This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from 2006, characterizes the perception of the minor chord, which lowers the third of a ...

[Music] as I'm joined by my good friend RM Sion I think it's a beautiful moment to talk about five music theory Concepts that are so much fun to use on guitar and I think there are Concepts that every ...

Much of our music, from classical to contemporary, is written in either a major or minor key (with exceptions, such as jazz, which uses neither). For most, a major key conjures up feelings of ...

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Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...