Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

In a new study published in Current Biology, researchers tried to quantify which kinds of chord changes people enjoy the most when listening to music. One 2017 study is emblematic of existing thinking ...

Which comes first: chords or meloody? That's the chicken and egg question facing any music maker staring at a blank DAW screen, and there's no right answer as to which you need to nail first. And ...

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