From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

In this video, I walk through my personal routine for practicing altered dominant chords—especially rootless voicings for #5/ ...

Beethoven used the theme we have come to associate primarily with his Third Symphony no less than four times, starting with the seventh of his 12 unpublished “Contredanses” from 1800-02 and in the ...

The uber-glitzy classical music festival opens with performances by Franz Schubert Filharmonia and the Tokyo Philharmonic, ...

Mike Campbell wrote 'The Boys Of Summer' then Tom Petty passed on it. How would the song have turned out if Tom Petty liked it and kept it from Don Henley?

Asst. Prof. of Composition Leah Reid and was co-sponsored by the music department and The Jefferson Trust. This gave students ...

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It took pianist Evgeny Kissin much of the first half of his recital to fully hit his stride. But when he did, with a dynamic, expansive performance of Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 4, the packed ...

Try Hard has the contours of a music memoir only in the sense that Kerman employs personal examples to show how he managed to ...

Out came a wordless vocal performance that married wailing, histrionic emotion with what sounded like an assertive counter to ...

It was called the Mu Major, and it was similar to a suspended second chord; however, it contained a major or minor third, which you don’t tend to see when dealing with suspended chords. This meant ...