Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Maybe you played piano as a kid and then stopped when exams, sports, college, and work swallowed your schedule. Maybe you ...

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 ...

These classic rock chord progressions were not common at the time, and that's precisely what made their songs such big hits.

Think of the color yellow. I’ll think of it, too. What are the chances our thoughts are the same? If instead I said “submarine yellow,” would we both picture the shade on the cover of the Beatles’ ...

When composing a song, not only the melody but also the chord progressions that support that melody are extremely important. However, there are countless chord progression patterns, and searching and ...