10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know; The ultimate guide to the circle of fifths and how it can help you make better music; Each note has a duration and a pitch. In the ...

The interval number and the number of its inversion always add up to nine - if low C to high E is a major third, low E to high C must be a minor sixth (3+6=9). Melodic, harmonic and compound intervals ...

Andy Wood's debut column for Guitar World is an essential study for players looking to have a greater knowledge of the ...

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 ...

The devil’s music . In times past, music was organised into modes rather than keys. The modes only used the white keys on a keyboard, so the only way you could play a different scale, or a different ...

Daniel Bowling, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University, analyzed the intervals, or distances between notes, in melodies from Western classical music and Indian ragas in a study published in ...