Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player ...

major 7th chords can be taken at face value… This D7 chord can be found among the first few pages of many chord books. From the fourth string through to the first, we have root (D), 5th (A ...

One of the central hooks of the song involves the recurring chord ... with D Major (Ionian), but it’s centered on A. Think of an A Major scale with a G♮ replacing the usual G# as the 7th ...

Mike Berry, who had a 60-year music career and was dubbed 'The British Buddy Holly', was the last surviving star of the BBC's ...

People like to throw around the phrases “long-awaited” and “highly anticipated” a lot. Sometimes it’s just PR hype speak, ...

A renowned interpreter of Edvard Grieg's music, Leif Andsnes also showcases lesser-known works by compatriot Geirr Tveitt at Severance Music Center.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

In addition to being among the foremost interpreters of the French composer, Mr. Nelson was praised for his work arranging ...

Burt Bacharach wrote one the most beloved songbooks in all of popular music — timeless classics like “Walk On By,” “Alfie,” ...

Considering the melodic similarities, Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that they amounted to nothing more than “five groupings of repeated 16th notes descending on a B minor scale in Levitating but ...