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 ...

For all those engineers who dabble in music [Magnetovore] has your back. Musicians simply must know their scales and he came up with a papercraft slide rule for major and minor scales. The system is ...

The chromatic scale -- the musical scale that follows the notes of the piano and of which the Western seven-tone do-re-mi scale is a subset -- may not be based on number ratios, as many physicists and ...

There’s no substitute for getting a handle on music theory and learning your scales, but if you need a quick online reference source, ToneGym’s free Music Scales Tool could come in very handy indeed.

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 ...

The Beatles possessed a knack for changing the big picture while keeping their focus relatively small. They concentrated on writing and recording music with as much diligence and care as possible. In ...

ONE of the stars of last year’s meeting of the Mathematical Association of America was Robert Schneider, lead guitarist of the indie band The Apples in Stereo. Delegates listened enthralled as he ...

Once described as the finest sound in nature, the song of the North American hermit thrush has long captivated the human ear. For centuries, birdwatchers have compared it to human music – and it turns ...