We've previously explored how getting the right drum sounds and the right effects in play when making a lo-fi track are integral, but what about the actual chords and sounds themselves? One of the ...

One perennial issue for songwriters is what to do when they’ve come up with a melody line and need a chord progression to fit it. So, we’ll show you how to establish the key your melody might be in, ...

It's all thanks to our innate understanding of frequencies and what works together. And the first step in your journey to creating a pleasing, rounded out, resolved chord sequence is to understand the ...

Old favourites When creating a harmonic progression, particularly for a song, we are looking to create a sequence of chords which may repeat as the song progresses.

And all of the chords have a dominant 7 quality or implied tonality. So the basic underlying progression is F7 - D7 - G7 - C7.

In this case, the idea is to be able to create your own loops or chord progressions, although this knowledge is useful beyond this genre, too, of course.

You’ll find variations of this progression in pop, R&B and jazz. It usually is very hard to mistake a blues song for a country song, even when both are based on the same three-chord progression.