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Aretha Franklin sings Bridge Over Troubled Water

Thank You (Falettin' Me Be Mice Elf Agin)

The twelve bar blues

The Dock of the Bay

Rockit

One week left to register for Songwriters Lab

Eye Know

When The Levee Breaks

Chords Around the Circle of Fifths - Part Two

Chords Around the Circle of Fifths - Part One

Why are F-sharp and G-flat two different notes?

What does The Well-Tempered Clavier sound like in actual well temperament?

William Orbit's polymetric groove in an All Saints song

Watermelon Man

The name of this tune is The Funky Drummer

Check out this beautiful EP by one of my former songwriting students

The saddest chord progression ever

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Are blue notes out of tune?

You Are My Sunshine

The circle of fifths is a lie

The Fourths Chord

Run-DMC, Paul Simon and Bob James

Thelonious Monk plays the blues

Aretha Franklin sings "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

I wrote a song about chromatic embellishments

End-accented phrases make melodies sound cool

Explaining suspensions

Explaining embellishing tones

New online songwriting class with Synthase

Is ABBA, like, good?

Everybody Loves The Sunshine

What key is "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac actually in?

Bring It On Down To My House

Visualizing secondary dominants

A year of writing for MusicRadar

RIP Roberta Flack

Is music getting dumber?

Terrapin Station

Doechii on Colbert

Fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn

Ray Charles sings "You Are My Sunshine"

Harmonic rhythm in two-chord shuttles

Inside the Super MAGFest Jam Clinic

MusicRadar column on Music For Airports

Subterranean Homesick Blues

I want to write a book about the Grateful Dead

MusicRadar column on one of Bob Dylan's greatest hits