The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing listeners on ...

A normal C major chord is C-E-G, but you can easily change it to E-G-C, called the 'first inversion', or G-C-E, the 'second inversion' - the bass note has changed, but it's still the same chord, with ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When writing progressions, how do we avoid the jerkiness that often results from playing every ...

Often when discussing songwriting, we divide it into its two main elements, words and music. But just as lyrics contain a multitude of sub-categories and considerations, so does music. It contains the ...

A lot of the elements that make pop music successful relate to it being catchy and familiar. As a songwriter, there are many ways to engender this feeling in listeners, to do with song structure, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the flagship new features in the latest version of Presonus’ innovative Studio One DAW, ...