Andy Wood's debut column for Guitar World is an essential study for players looking to have a greater knowledge of the fretboard and how root notes relate with each individual note in a melody ...

More than 12 notes exist in actual sound waves, and these are most commonly explored in what is called ‘microtonal’ music – music that uses the notes in between the notes. If the 12 notes of the ...

Scales are established sequences of notes built from tones and semitones – tones being seen as ‘whole’ intervals between notes, and semitones being ‘half’ intervals between notes. On the piano, each ...

Music Theory 101 is a free and interactive resource that takes the subject back to first principles, so you get explainers on notes, scales, intervals, chords, chord progressions, rhythm and musical ...

Back in the day, before the technological advancements that brought us DAWs, a working knowledge of music theory was a necessity for music-making. Now, due to major innovations in the creative tools ...

However, a general-purpose FFT algorithm is not as good for musical notes, since intervals between note frequencies become wider as frequency increases, and you need to do more work to distinguish ...