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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jun Sato/WireImage Chords, scales, and harmony are subjects you could spend your whole ...

Being able to determine a song’s key is a crucial skill for DJs and producers who want to create remixes and use melodic samples. Fortunately, whether you want to use your ears or a tech-based ...

Each piece of music, be it a song, symphony or concerto, is written in a specific ‘key’. But what do we mean when we refer to a musical key, why are there 24 of them, and how do composers choose which ...

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The times when pop music gave us the most epic, and emotionally satisfying key changes. Here are ten of the very best. Over centuries of music, composers have used modulations and changes in the key ...

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Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have something in common: a key change, like the one you hear in Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." But key changes have become harder to ...