Chord Structure/ Chord Function
As your understanding of music deepens, one of the things that’s going to come into focus is the distinction between structure and function.
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Minor Nine Voicing: look no further
If you’re looking for a simple chord, one that sounds expensive, one that you’ll keep coming back to, look no further than this one.
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Beats
Believe it or not, I’m not trying to impress you with my pitch.
A dedicated space
Whether you call it a bus or whether you call it a send and a return, the utility of running effects like reverbs and delays in parallel rather than …
Altered Sharp Nine: The Hendrix Chord
Here are some thoughts on the thing you might know of as the Hendrix chord.
Boom Inversion
Let me show you something.
Reverb Null Test
When you place reverb on a channel, does it sound different than when you put it on a bus?
Eleven: deep dive
This is a suspended chord and its third has been replaced with a fourth.
Squander
On paper, this mic is better than this one in pretty much every way.
Trouble Hearing Compression
Raise your hand if you have trouble hearing compression.
harmony is rhythm
Now you think you know what this video is about, but I don’t think you do.
god only knows
These are the chords from Brad Wilson’s "God Only Knows." The song’s originally an E, but we’ve moved it to C to conform to our ten chord toolkit.
I Quit
Being really good at something is exhausting and the only thing that’s different between you and someone who quit is that you didn’t.
