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 ...

Welcome back. This is a continuation of our exploration of chord progressions in songs, both diationic (one key) and chromatic (more than one color, of key). It starts with an example by The Beatles, ...

in this video I'll be showing you everything that you need to know to start playing chord progressions right away we're going to be going over the pop progression SL chords primary chords and even how ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Altered chords are chords that have been changed by having the pitch of one or more notes in the ...

Guitar skills: When it comes to chord progressions, you don’t have to break new ground to write great songs. In fact, some basic chord progressions have been used repeatedly in hundreds of pop and ...

Almost every song in the pop charts is built around the same four chords. And it's nothing new – they're the same three chords that Pachelbel used in his famous Canon. But why do we keep coming back ...