A high-stakes dispute forcing copyright law to confront a long-standing problem: how to define ‘originality’ for the protection of musical works.

When composing a song, not only the melody but also the chord progressions that support that melody are extremely important. However, there are countless chord progression patterns, and searching and ...

A musician spends time with his three youngest kids while revisiting one of pop music’s most common, yet often overlooked, chord progressions, turning a simple lesson into a fun family jam. ‘Not ...

The Darkness have never made any secret of their influences and often wear them on their sleeves. There’s the box-office theatricality of Queen, the ribald overdrive of AC/DC, the grandeur and alpha ...

The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process When you purchase ...

in this video I'll be showing you everything that you need to know to start playing chord progressions right away we're going to be going over the pop progression SL chords primary chords and even how ...

You know you're doing something right as a musician when a particular chord or chord progression gets named after you. Take for instance the Hendrix Chord (that's a dominant seven chord with a sharp ...

A revolutionary form of music took the world by storm in the Seventies and dragged a little-known island languishing in the Caribbean along with it. That music was reggae and the island was, of course ...

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of many ...

Guitar skills: When it comes to chord progressions, you don’t have to break new ground to write great songs. In fact, some basic chord progressions have been used repeatedly in hundreds of pop and ...

Musician, songwriter, and producer Michael Goldwasser has been involved with the international reggae scene for decades, working with artists as diverse as Toots and the Maytals. Jason Mraz, and ...