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How to use tried and tested chord progressions when crafting your song

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing listeners on ...
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How to use altered chords for better progressions

Altered chords are chords that have been changed by having the pitch of one or more notes in the chord sharpened or flattened by a semitone. Altering a chord in this way can have a big effect on its ...
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'Instead of just sticking to conventional chord shapes, Walter Becker preferred to use different inversions to place guitar in the track in a different way': If you only learn ...

American rock group S teely Dan have trodden a few different genre lines in their career – they almost became their own genre – but one thing that remains constant in their sound is their highly ...
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What is harmony?

LEMM: This is harmony. It’s the sound created when two or more notes are played at the same time. BOY 2: What id we add a third note? GIRL 2: We should totally use harmony in our song! LEMM: Yeah!