There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project. Here, we ...

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Scales are the building blocks of music. Think of it like this: if a piece of music or a song is a house, then the scales probably most closely resemble the walls. The ‘do re mi fa so la ti do’ ...

What are microtones, and why are they not an everyday part of classical music? We explore the history and mysteries of the ‘notes in between the notes’. Music is broadly defined as humanly-organised ...