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 ...

It goes without saying that a good chord progression can be fundamental to a quality song, but when you find yourself staring at a blank screen, how do you get started and string an appropriate set of ...

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Chord names like Am13 and F#maj7#11 are pretty scary; they sound as though they'd be hard to play and impossible to use musically. While we can't promise that these chords are easyto play, there is an ...

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons IN HARMONY This month, Andy Timmons takes a look at his song “That Day Came,” which he recorded for his 2016 album, Theme From a Perfect World, as a means for exploring ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, as we are the ones banging out the root notes! But there are ...