Perfect Fourth

While Team USA was in Paris competing for gold, Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves was on the side of the road. "I was going to golf… and I looked at the…

Taygen Hill didn't have to look too far for influence and inspiration in the world of clay target shooting.

Metallica's song "Master of Puppets" has extremely powerful and driving momentum, which is especially impressive given that it is riddled with meter changes and thrashes on for al…

Anglada-Tort et al. use online singing experiments to study oral transmission mechanisms in US and Indian participants. The results show how individual participant biases—vocal, cognitive, and cultural—shape the evolution of musical structures but that social biases are crucial for determining differences and similarities in resulting structures.

Each black key on the piano has two different names. Why? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers get all pe…

Play piano chords online. Hear and visualize major, minor, diminished, augmented & more chords on the piano. Makes for an easy piano chord reference chart.

Ever had that musical crisis where you realise there are only 12 notes in music, and only so many combinations to use them? That crisis that nothing is original anymore and everything you have written has already been written? Yeah we all get that at some point. It goes away when you learn that there […]

Both Steph Curry and Draymond Green watched from the bench as youngsters Brandin Podziemski and Jonathan Kuminga willed the Golden State Warriors to victory.

The basic notes, rests and harmonies of Western music arose as humans heard how sounds traveled through the first large temples, built more than 2,000 years ago

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I am committed to teaching my New School music theory students something about the history of tuning in Western European music. I don't expect them to retain any details or do any math, I jus…

Pallante's strong relief nets him the win as Cardinals trail most of the way until eighth.

O'Neill returns to the lineup after two days to find his timing. Cardinals bring back lefty Naughton to be the 27th man for the doubleheader.

If you want to understand the vast cultural struggle taking place in the study of Western harmony, you could do worse than to start with the harmonica. This unassuming little instrument was designe…

We're down to 16 teams in ESPN's 2022 fictional NCAA football tournament, so who takes home the crown?

We're crate-digging to examine the legacy of the late pianist McCoy Tyner, uncovering a concert gem recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1997.

The division of the chromatic scale in $7$ natural notes (white keys in a piano) and $5$ accidental ones (black) seems a bit arbitrary to me. Apparently, adjacent notes in a piano (including white...

Hello bass players and fans of bass playing! This month we will study the Major Scale for 6-string bass. The major scale, also known as the Ionian mode. The major scale contains the root, the major 2nd, the major 3rd, the perfect 4th, the perfect 5th, the major 6th and the Major 7th. Ex.1 – […]

In Part 3 of this series, we figured out all the scales where we choose 7 notes from the 12 notes in the usual chromatic scale, with the property that the biggest step between notes is a whole tone…

When you listen to some melody, your brain doesn't perceive the notes in terms of their absolute pitch. Instead, it perceives each note based on how far away it is from the tonic - the first (or root) note of the scale. Tonic is an anchor everything revolves around. Our brain particularly likes it when the melody ends (or "resolves") on a tonic.