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Hello everyone!I'm the composer, Tsukimochi!Last time, we talked about the roles of chords: "Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve all played them, but how many of us can say we know how 7th chords actually work? There’s more to them than meets the eye… ...

Once you have a basic chord progression, the next step is to add a little color to the sound.Things that look difficult, ...

A study suggests that minor and major seventh chords are the happiest sounds in music, but today’s songwriters are ditching them in favour of simple minor chords. But why does this matter? We all love ...

A full lesson worth of creating and finding major, minor, dominant and diminished 7th chords, also looking at inversions. The worksheet has 10 questions, starting easy and getting much harder, which ...

Using this style of 7th chord was a compositional device which was almost entirely reserved for chord V (aka the dominant chord) in classical circles. This obviously gets a tad confusing, if it’s not ...

Dave Grohl is one of the most famous rock musicians on the planet, but even though he's been writing songs with the Foo Fighters for three decades, he still doesn't know the names of most of the ...

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Guitarists as diverse as James Hetfield, Brian May, Steve Lukather and George Benson all swear by power chords. Learn the core shapes that will empower you in any genre ...