Once you've got simple major and minor chords under your fingers, 7th barre chords are the next stage to make your playing sound more professional. Stuart Ryan shows you the relevance of the major 7, ...

Daniel Levitin, in his popular bestseller entitled This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession from 2006, characterizes the perception of the minor chord, which lowers the third of a ...

When it comes to guitar chords, it all begins with basic ones that are called either major (use just the letter of the chord, eg E for E major) or minor (reduced to the letter plus m, eg Em for E ...

Making music is a form of therapy for Doechii.Rather than crafting songs that fit current pop-music expectations, she writes deeply personal stories and performs them as catharsis. Unlike other ...

When we combine harmonious intervals to create chords, there are various conventions we follow (consciously or otherwise) to avoid unpleasant dissonances. Here, we’re going to do no such thing! We ...

A normal C major chord is C-E-G, but you can easily change it to E-G-C, called the 'first inversion', or G-C-E, the 'second inversion' - the bass note has changed, but it's still the same chord, with ...

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Artist and musician Raymond Essayan plays a piano he sculpted from the rubble of a destroyed building while shooting a music video for song dedicated to Beirut, Lebanon, after an explosion there in ...

Mariah Carey has broken a Spotify record set by Adele (Picture:Getty) Christmas may be over for another year, but Mariah Carey is no doubt still revelling in the celebrations – especially as she’s ...