When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are 12 notes on a piano keyboard: C to C and repeat. But in almost all music, the point is ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

For singers and their audiences, being "in tune" might not be as important as we think. The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of ...

Almost every song you hear has a chord progression. This forms the harmonic content of the song, and is often what gives a song its emotional impact. But what about the melody? The notes of the melody ...

Learning to play the guitar with award-winning, Zimbabwean-born guitarist Tony Cox, and rediscovering the simplicity of music. It’s Sunday morning, 10 o’clock. I’m in a cottage alongside the Knysna ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Instead of passing the right scale notes through to your DAW, the plugin uses a ‘current note’ ...

Sharp notes and flat notes are the black notes on a standard piano keyboard, and they are at the same time exactly the same, and completely the opposite, of each other. They are the same, in that ...

Naming seven colors to correspond to seven notes is “a kind of very strange and interesting thing for him to have done,” says Peter Pesic, physicist, pianist, and author of the 2014 book Music and the ...