If you are involved with commercial music, you’ll be familiar with the term ‘four-to-the-floor’. But why is four suddenly the ...

Take the time signature 3/4, which is sometimes described as waltz time; if we follow our previous analysis, this means that there are 3 crotchet/1/4-note beats to a bar. There have been several ...

Put those dull pencils and boring manuscript paper away: here are some fun and creative ways of teaching the basics of music. From note values and rhythm, right through to time signatures and ...

10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know; So, with that principle in mind, we’re going to begin in this first instalment by shining a light on the three core pillars of music ...

The Do-Re-Mi system (also known as solfège) was invented by Guido D’Arezzo around 1000 AD, and it basically assigns syllables to notes.Following his innovation, musicians over the next few hundred ...