For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool ...

Triads are three-note chords made up of the lowest note (known as the root note), a middle note, (the third), and the top note (the fifth). But when you play a set of diatonic chords like this, built ...

Step 1: Detroit techno, a more electronic-sounding offshoot of house, often made use of the chord memory feature of certain synths, which enabled you to play a particular chord shape with a single key ...

The "forbidden chord," popular in heavy metal, is full of dissonance and creates a sense of doom or unease. Here's a look at the ominous chord.

Discover a wealth of dominant 7th, diminished and chromatically colored chords to bring variety and sophistication to your playing ...