In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

The latest reinvention of Haley Fohr finds the Indiana-born singer-composer taking a headlong dive into her own inner world, ...

Having introduced 5 chord shapes for DADGAD tuning, let's turn our attention to open D (aka D A D F# A D). As with DADGAD, drop the sixth string down a tone to D, then drop the first and second ...

For this open tuning lesson, we are going to take open G and turn it into a G minor version. To do this, tune into open G by dropping the sixth, fifth and first strings down a tone, then drop the ...

When Nashville singer-songwriter Stephen Day began crafting his third studio record "Gold Mine," he didn't realize just how close he was to striking gold himself.

Heart set to work on their debut album, and completed their line-up with the addition of Howard Leese, a multi-instrumentalist. Over the years, Leese would prove to be the guy with most staying power, ...

"It sort of drove me insane," she wrote while annotating her lyrics ... and chords are all conspiring to disguise the grief at its core — the first stage, denial, at its finest. "You Still ...

In music, as in life, reinvention is always a moment away. Two soon-to-be-released albums from Richmond based songwriters—one ...

John Lennon openly criticized songs like 'Yesterday,' calling the lyrics ... chords to it, made sure I remembered it and then hawked it round to all my friends, asking what it was: 'Do you know ...

Most bands put their best effort into delivering their music to the fans, but some songs are better to be left in the studio.

Kevin Saunderson and Fabio & Grooverider discuss the origins of techno and jungle, the Second Summer Of Love, and how Detroit ...