The top three notes give us the b9th (Eb), the 3rd (F#) and the 13th (B). This Gmaj9 gives a nice finishing chord, meaning ...

In the third instalment of his rebooted Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy analyses two horror scores by Gazelle Twin – Black Cab (2024) and Nocturne (2020) – and considers how psychol ...

Some sound airy fairy, like they’re floating away (Lydian) whilst others are dark and driving ... Build tension by grounding your chord progression with a tonic pedal by creating and duplicating a ...