Some people spend a lifetime studying music theory - and there’s certainly value in doing that - but if you just want to know the basics, fast, ToneGym’s new crash course could be well worth taking.

There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal ...

Below left: The figure shows how geometrical music theory represents four-note chord-types -- the collections of notes form a tetrahedron, with the colors indicating the spacing between the individual ...

What are microtones, and why are they not an everyday part of classical music? We explore the history and mysteries of the ‘notes in between the notes’. Music is broadly defined as humanly-organised ...

As an electronic musician, it’s important to be able to create and finesse the sounds of your productions. The ability to craft unique synth patches, shape and sequence distinctive beats and layer, ...

Calling all folk musicians, singer-songwriters, fiddlers, and living-room players! Allegro Academy is offering our new Music ...

Music contains notes in succession (melody) or notes in combination. When notes are played at the same time it is called harmony. The type of harmony created in a piece of music or a song is the ...

Listeners-regardless of formal musical training-can track complex tonal structures, offering a unique look at how the brain processes context.There is ...

Thought music was a universal language? Think again. Here’s a bit about how music theory works around the world. … as Maria from The Sound of Music once told us. But in most English-speaking countries ...

To me, music theory is as foreign a concept as the intricacies of cooking meth, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. Sure, I have a basic grasp of scales, and I can read sheet music from my piano ...