Here, we take things right back to basics by explaining what notes, intervals, scales and chords are, and how they’re all ...

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

Chords, scales, and harmony are subjects you could spend your whole life studying – and perhaps that complexity and sense of ...

Used by countless blues guitarists and hard rockers from B.B. King and Guns N' Roses to Josh Smith and Joe Bonamassa, the Mixolydian mode is essential knowledge. Stuart Ryan explains all ...

This is the first note of our scale, the note C. The next note that we need to add is described as the 3rd of our chord or triad. It's exceptionally simple to locate this, as we just count up three ...