From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

The Locrian mode is the seventh and darkest mode derived from the major scale. Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of ...

Used by countless blues guitarists and hard rockers from B.B. King and Guns N' Roses to Josh Smith and Joe Bonamassa, the Mixolydian mode is essential knowledge. Stuart Ryan explains all ...

Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the ...

This is triad theory in action. Of course, not all triads have to be chords of C major or minor. You can use the process, of selecting the 1st (root), 3rd, and 5th degree of either a major or minor ...

This is especially evident in the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It's written in ... involving lots of fast scales and arpeggios (broken chords); the second part - the Fugue - is characterised ...

And yet despite featuring some of the band’s most popular songs, “Radio City” has proved a curiously hard record to digest, both for individual listeners and on the broader scale of rock ...

The abduction of a young Chinese actor, who was trafficked from Thailand to Myanmar, prompted an unusually powerful public-pressure campaign and official actions.

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

One very positive development over the last 12 months has been the slow resurgence of smaller scale AAA games from ... new titles can hope to make even a minor impression. It doesn't help that ...