Diatonic chords are chords made using the notes within a scale. This makes them fit well together and makes your chord progressions coherent

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.

We are going to learn how to use diminished chords in progressions. But before learning their use, it is important to understand tension...

In this article we are going to take a look at diminished chords. We'll learn how to make them, understand their variations and basic theory

This article explains all the basics of writing chords using the roman numeral notation.

This is part 2 of the series on modes. Here we will take a look at each mode individually, and understand why they sound the way they do.

Modes are, without the shadow of a doubt, my favorite concept in music theory. They are so simple, and yet such a powerful tool that brings a freshness to songs. In this post, I am going to explain the concept at the very basic level, and in future articles, explore the ways in which you can use them in your own music. P.S.- You need to know what is a major scale, and how to find the notes of any major scale before reading. What is a mode? A major scale has seven notes, and t