Music is all about conveying emotions and stories through sounds. Every good story needs a conflict to make the resolution stronger. It's very hard to keep the audience interested in a song that has static emotion throughout. That is what "Dominant" means in music. The quality of a sound to have tension that has a strong pull towards another sound, i.e. the "tonic", to resolve the tension. This is the broadest understanding of the concept, but it can have several specific mea

Non-Diatonic chords can be used to spice up your chord progressions by stepping out of the scale and using notes that bring a fresh sound.

Lyric writing is a skill that even seasoned musicians struggle with quite often. Creative blocks, lack of inspiration, limited vocabulary, fear of writing something cheesy or just not being confident enough to put words to your music. Be it any of those reasons, a lot of music producers just choose the route of making instrumental music to avoid writing lyrics. Don't get me wrong. There is a place for instrumental music, and in fact, writing an engaging instrumental is no sma