Chords like I (Cmaj) or vi (Amin) are the closest but ii (Dmin) and IV (Fmaj) are a bit further away. V (Gmaj) and viio (Bdim) are the furthest. You can still use the chords that are the furthest, although hanging out on your V chord for a while could throw off your listen...
The word diatonic means “strictly within a key.” Diatonic harmony is all about using only the notes of a particular scale to create chords. This is one of those situations where limiting your options can open up creative freedom. In other words, if you restrict yourself to seven notes, y...
The word diatonic means “strictly within a key.” Diatonic harmony is all about using only the notes of a particular scale to create chords. This is one of those situations where limiting your options can open up creative freedom. In other words, if you restrict yourself to seven notes, y...
Bands like the Japandroids, PS I Love You, and Amazing/Wow are the stuff that rock music is made of, and I’m just a sucker for bands that really let their balls hang out. If you can’t say what you need to say in 3 chords and with shitty distorted singing, maybe you need to ...
so they all started from that place where it's about the lyrics, the melody and the chords, and we then built them up from there. We did a lot of layering, with loads of guitars and keyboards, and loops and beats and percussion. The production is very dense, but it also feels very...
This began a very prolific era with the group amassing twelve more studio albums in the next 20 years, featuring such standout radio singles as “Beverly Hills,”“Perfect Situation,”“Pork and Beans,”“Troublemaker,”“I Want You To,”“Back to the Shack,”“Feels Like Summer,”“All...
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and ...
were made. There’s so much here. (Side note: Learning how to play “Mail Order Bride†by ear was pure punishment. It was, at least, consensual but I would not call it safe or sane. Were y’all trying to use all the chords in one ...
Quartal harmony is not bound by the same rules, so stepping into a progression built from quartal chords feels like stepping out into space, where the unifying gravity of tonal harmony is nowhere to be found and, instead, the inertia of intervals govern the movement of pitches relative to ...
album, packing a fair amount of potent power chords and a decent chorus whose only failing is forgetting to include the song’s title. Never underestimate the importance of that, kids. Even the alien “woo woos” that appear near the end come too late to offend, so maybe give “Shock Wa...