There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project. Here, we ...

Only the order of tones and semitones is different. Both keys have the same key signature, shown here:. Because they share the same key signature and the same notes, it is common to modulate or change ...

Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song. You might decide “right, this will be in C minor,” or you might just string together a seemingly ...