if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

For reasons to do with me mentioning it, my tutor looked up Joni Mitchell’s Coyote on YT. Within a verse, he detected the down-tuned low-E ...

Not only can we not play full-fledged triadic extended chords on the guitar, but we can’t always play the notes of a special-effects chord i...

Next up are the chords made up of four notes. These are seventh chords, because four notes each a third apart are a seventh apart from top ...

A tune is made up of a sequence of intervals. Chords provide a background against which the melody is set. Western chords start with Triad...

Most music is written in one of the twelve major scales, and the Major scale has a pragmatically-central position in a (western) musician...

(This is the first of two slightly dry posts on naming conventions.) The intervals of European Equal Temperament scales are defined by cou...

(We are now working in European Equal Temperament.) A scale is any sequence of intervals (notice: not notes) that adds up to 12 semitones...

This is the first of a series of posts about music notation and associated ideas. The world does not need this, but I do, to make my own sen...