This is the first in a series of posts that looks at the music of ex-Beatle George Harrison. Often, his music has an ethereal quality, no doubt influenced by his passion for spirituality and his never ending quest for answers. It is rare indeed that a musician continues in this vein throughout his career, but that he did. The first piece we are going to look at, is his classic from his triple album All Things Must Pass. Released 55 years ago this month, it contains the song B

I have had a bit of a wake-up call recently. I found myself participating in the process of ‘creating’ music, based around a set of...

To some of you out there, I am stating what you have always suspected, but to the overwhelming majority, I suspect my opening headline is...

The Augmented chord has a formula of 1 3 #5 and is found in more popular music than one would think. The I+ chord is found in many well...

I have just recorded this piece by English composer Peter Carr which I believe is the first time it has ever been recorded. Written in...

The classic show-off solo guitar spectacular from Van Halen’s first album catapulted Eddie Van Halen into guitar superhero status. It is...

This is the third post in a series which looks at the modes of Messiaen from the point of view of the scale changing when chromatic notes...

Peter Shaffer wrote the play Amadeus, first performed in 1979, based upon Pushkin’s play 'Mozart and Salieri' from 1830, and this was...

Those of you that are unfamiliar with the harmonic series just need to know that when a note is played, a series of other notes above...

There has been a lot of discussion recently in the more highly regarded guitar publications concerning the correct preening etiquette...

Nikita Koshkin’s piece for classical guitar is a well loved favourite at the performer level. Not for the beginner or intermediate...

This is an article that goes out to all you composers, whether experienced or budding, no matter what instrument or genre of music you...

No, not really, but some of his music may have been written by one, namely, his second wife Anna Magdalena. Plenty of evidence has been...

In this series I shall venture to encourage you to add unusual modes into your improvising, focusing on well known songs that make the...

The composer Alexander Scriabin (1872 – 1915) used a six note scale, known as the Prometheus scale, in his music, and when arranged into...

In this series of posts I am going to show how to use the Modal Method, as outlined in my book, to analyse a single bar of music, in this...

Continuing on from my first article in this series, which can be found below, I will now show how the most simple of mathematical...

In anticipation of the sequel to The Modal Method of Music being published at the end of the year, I have established a new group with...

I noticed there are a few people with opinions on the subject of Maths in Music which veer into the realms of the philosophical or even...

When soloing in a key, the quickest way to modulate to III minor, is via the Dorian mode. Raising its root creates the mode Alt bb37,...