The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used. It is most known as the jazz progression as it is the backbone of many ...

Lo-fi is to audio what black-and-white or sepia-tinted film is to visual. Often lo-fi tracks will loop a sample from an old vinyl record, complete with scratches and crackles, then drop it over a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Gai Terrell/Redferns/Getty Images Complete mastery of the fretboard – as much as such a ...

Artists Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1 Artists “I remember saying to Clapton, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: ...

The most important aspect to study in melody writing is probably your intervals. In Western music, we use 12 notes in semitone intervals, in other cultures they have quarter tones and microtonal ...

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed ...

Guitar lessons: The most common chord progression is known as a ‘12-bar blues’, which, predictably is 12 bars long (eight-, 16- and 24-bar versions are common, too). What the name doesn’t tell you is ...

Here's a slab of guitar heaven for axe freaks and fans of jazz evolution at its most accessible. Some periods are a tad underrepresented: the 1930s only get a dozen cuts out of almost 70 numbers. And ...