Whether you're into jazz, rock, pop, soul, or country, learning to play by ear starts with one essential skill: hearing and identifying chords. In this video, we break down the first steps to training ...

A chord autoscroll and transposer tool for guitarists. Built with Python and PyQt6, this app allows musicians to load, edit, and transpose song chord sheets, with auto-scroll functionality for ...

“Finding for SAS on its selection-and-arrangement claim ‘risks granting a monopoly over a combination of two fundamental musical building blocks.’” Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

Abstract: The vast majority of research on automatic chord transcription has been developed and tested on databases mainly focused on genres like pop and rock. Jazz is strongly based on improvisation, ...

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 ...

It goes without saying that a good chord progression can be fundamental to a quality song, but when you find yourself staring at a blank screen, how do you get started and string an appropriate set of ...

One day in 1973, Edward Townsend, a singer-songwriter who’d had a minor hit with the 1958 ballad “For Your Love,” invited a friend, the R. & B. superstar Marvin Gaye, to his home in Los Angeles, to ...