Tritone substitution is a method of replacing a Dom7 chord with another Dom7 chord that shares the same tritone, and it sounds terrific.

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.

In the widespread boredom epidemic of the 16th century, the Harmonic Minor scale was invented to battle the blandness of major and minor scales. While that sentence may be a complete and utter falsification of music history, it does have some truth to it. Harmonic Minor has a dark and mysterious sound that is, as of yet, not so common in popular music, making it useful for bringing in some freshness to your compositions. So today we're going to see what exactly it is, where

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.