A great way to get started writing a song is to use a well-known chord progression. Certain progressions have been used thousands of times throughout the history of recorded music, so there’s no ...

As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, ...

Jesse Colin Young, who sang one of the signature songs of the 1960s counterculture, the Youngbloods’ “Get Together,” before moving into a solo career in the ’70s, has died at age 83. His wife and ...

You might be surprised at how many pop songs are exactly the same. Cat Scratch Fever is the exact same song as Smoke on the Water. Even one of Yeezy’s songs is strikingly similar to a weird ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...