Whether you mean to or not, you’ll almost inevitably work in a particular key when writing a song. You might decide “right, this will be in C minor,” or you might just string together a seemingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man playing an acoustic guitar. If you’ve ever found yourself feeling bored of the chord progressions that you’re creating, or ...

A lot of the elements that make pop music successful relate to it being catchy and familiar. As a songwriter, there are many ways to engender this feeling in listeners, to do with song structure, ...

These classic rock chord progressions were not common at the time, and that's precisely what made their songs such big hits.