Usable music theory: How to create a chord progression from any melody; You don't need to be a music theory expert to make electronic music, but it helps - here's our guide to the basics; 10 music ...

The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within a key signature. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. ...

There are certain chord progressions that are steadfast stalwarts in pop music because of their catchy familiarity. The focus in this article is the I-IV-V. What Is I-IV-V?

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 ...

To many people, minor chord progressions in music “sound sad” while songs in a major key “sound happy”. But for researchers who study how people respond to music, it has always been ...

Pop music might come off as formulaic sometimes, and, to some extent, that’s probably true. Hook Theory is a song database, and after analyzing 1,300 popular songs, looking at the chord ...

The chord progression encompasses many of the cool harmonic devices we’ve discussed in previous In Theory articles, like chromatic mediant relationships (the G6 to Bb6b5) and Neapolitan chords ...