Music Calculator

To illustrate this in action, consider why some chord progressions look right on paper yet sound wrong. Partly because we rotate through mode. If you’ve … Read more

Stacking notes close together without dropping the pitch can sound muddy in a room, even if it look good on paper. What happens is that … Read more

If distance from top note to bottom note in a chord is not right then chords can sound muddy and lack depth. It’s not usually … Read more

Often you reach a point in a run where you are comfortabley with the scale fingering, so it runs automatically. Then when you add an … Read more

Harmonic movement shift to suggest a new key for a brief moment but does not fully modulate. Think of it like this: when we are … Read more

Perhaps you’ve felt like music theory is a secret language. You look at chord charts with string after string of Ws and Hs and think … Read more

If what’s printed is too messy to read, use accidental count calculator. It will help you estimate roughly how many printed accidentals is on each … Read more

Sometimes when I write songs there comes a point at which all the theory tells me something ought to be right but it isn’t. The … Read more

Rhythm exists in a song; most musicians is aware of that, but what about stacking individual rhythms into larger structures? Enter hypermeter. Above the measure … Read more

Next is concept of harmonic rhythm. Harmonic rhythm refer to the rate at which song’s underlying chord shifts. If you listen to a track whose … Read more

The melody sound nice. But it doesn’t quite hold together. The singing lack structure. The phrases is flowing, but there’s something lacking. Probably not in … Read more

For example, when learning scales, music student are commonly taught to play them upwards and then repeat downwards. Perfectly understandable, but have you considered how … Read more

The sound is a rhythm that somehow rings true but doesn’t come from any known place. It might be in West African drum circle, in … Read more

There is a slight break after which the first drum stroke sound. This opening sound is one that appears in Broadway numbers, in Rock Anthems, … Read more

Rhythm has been called heartbeat of music, but really it’s the stumble in the heart beat that compels us to move. It is the instant … Read more