A little knowledge with naming conventions goes a long way to understanding complex chords and how they might sound ...

Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song. You might decide “right, this will be in C minor,” or you might just string together a seemingly ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord. The ...

To begin our discussion on what it is that makes minor chords sad, we will first listen to some examples of the use of minor chords and minor keys that demonstrate breathtaking power to convey deep ...