We can get some pretty dissonant ‘murder mystery’ type chords without having to get our fingers in a twist ... in the way in which they do on the piano keyboard. This can be off putting ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

A review last week in the Wall Street Journal paid homage to the late, great New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint, but it got ...

Roberta Flack did not write Killing Me Softly. There is some dispute about who did. Two music industry veterans were involved: composer Charles Fox (who also wrote a lot of TV theme songs, including ...

At one point well into the performance, Toussaint began playing his famous song that, in a different arrangement, had become a chart-topping ... basic chord arrangement on the piano, Toussaint ...

"It’s just so spare, so little going on but every nuance, everything on it," said Gilmour of a favorite song. "It’s absolutely affection." ...

Was it often a dissonant chord you were strumming ... set to dominate the charts from sheer wattage alone. Luckily for us, the song is an absolute classic from the duo, built around their ...

I tested and reviewed Yousician's piano learning app, and found it well-suited for a wide range of experience levels, with a huge trove of pop and rock songs.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Joy Postell and Jastin Martin. After an explosive start to the year between the Grammys, Super Bowl, SNL 50 and NBA All-Star ...

Carys Anderson Last March, a band from Indonesia made the 10,000-mile trek to SXSW with clay instruments mostly intact and ...