Scales

Where music theory comes from — sound, the harmonic series, building a scale, and the vocabulary that makes it all make sense.

This descending chord progression is in thousands of songs — but it uses two different scales depending on direction. A scale is a living thing.

A descending baseline over a minor chord appears in thousands of songs. But that little wrinkle at the end means you can't use a single scale.

Understanding the mathematical foundations of audio compression: how logarithms relate to dynamic range and decibel measurements in audio engineering.