Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

Matthew Lorenzon saw a problem: his stepson Ezra loved playing piano, but the siren song of screen time was louder than the lure of black and white keys. Too often, piano practice was being ...

Need a practical way to get comfortable with jazz chords? This single exercise will help you learn to voice major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, and half-diminished chords in every key. Perfect for jazz ...

However, following the ‘popularity’ of the piece for Ceylon, Mendelssohn had later written a shorter work for solo piano. That was not a reproduction ... of musical theme and development, using a ...

It contains a patent-pending chord voicing engine, three separate synthesizer emulators (a polyphonic virtual analog subtractive synth, an FM synth and a vintage reed piano emulation inspired by a ...

Piano chords form the backbone of most music compositions ... you can modulate to different keys, switch between major and minor chords, or introduce unexpected elements like diminished or augmented ...

But one thing’s for sure – the musical composition, which began playing in an ancient church in Germany, is played so slowly that any minor chord change ... written for piano in 1985, Cage ...

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Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat.

The arpeggiated piano and finger-picked guitar figure ... first inversion of an E♭ minor triad — i.e., it’s the minor iv chord relative to the B♭ tonic. In a previous In Theory article ...