by Tyler Gutherman | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, Music Composition
Borrowing Weird Chords It is a fact that the majority of popular western music is diatonic. Therefore, it was composed using a fixed bank of available pitches that belong to one major or minor key signature. This system, however, is limiting. In fact,...
by Tyler Gutherman | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, Music Composition
Firstly, the majority of popular music is diatonic. This means it was composed within a major or minor key signature and does not modulate. A key signature determines the set of pitches that “agree” with each other harmonically. There are usually 7 different pitches...
