When it comes to popular music, it's hard to overlook the influence of the blues. You can hear it in everything from Led Zepplin to No...

Most musicians are familiar with the pentatonic scales in one way or another. Most of the time it's usually learned early as a prepara...

During the times that I played in various rock bands one thing that always amazed me was how proud rock musicians were about the fact that t...

While studying theory and composition at university, one of the first things they talked to us about was voice leading. Voice leading is sim...

We've talked about the circle of fifths and the different ways that songwriters you can use it. Today we're going to talk about a co...

We've talked about the circle of fifths and it's many uses here before. There is another circle that exists in music that you need t...

You've decided that you want to learn some theory or some new concepts on your instrument. You may start out reading a book or checking ...

We talked about working on arranging as part of developing your writing skills in a past post. This time we're going to go into more det...

If you're acquainted with an music theory at all,  you've heard about the circle of fifths. It's one of the building blocks of w...