American Songwriter

Songwriter U: How To Use Chord Progressions In Your Songwriting, Part I

Often when discussing songwriting, we divide it into its two main elements, words and music. But just as lyrics contain a multitude of sub-categories and considerations, so does music. It contains the ...
American Songwriter

Songwriter U: Building Chord Progressions, Part 2

Welcome back. This is a continuation of our exploration of chord progressions in songs, both diationic (one key) and chromatic (more than one color, of key). It starts with an example by The Beatles, ...
University of Delaware

MUSICAL THEORY Classes

This class introduces students to the fundamentals of music including notation (staff, clefs, time signatures, measures, etc.), note reading, rhythm reading, music history, and more. This class ...
Guitar World on MSN

Josh Smith - Using Chromatic Approaches To Expand Your Blues Soloing Vocabulary

LIVE FROM FLAT V by Josh Smith SOLO EXPANSIONS, PART 1. Over the next few columns, Josh Smith will demonstrate three distinct approaches he likes to take to expand his soloing vocabulary within the ...