Alternatively, take the Dorian mode (R-2-b3-4-5-6-b7) and raise the 7th from a minor 7 to a major 7. All other notes stay the ...

One must be careful with these kinds of psychoacoustical questions because of cultural differences and sad minor keyed songs just being what you're used to, but if there is an explanation it may have ...

For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool about it. Talk of Major and Minor scales conjure up images of dry, dusty, ...

Introduce changes in the mood of the music you play with this ‘relative’ major and minor scale trick. We could fill the mag many times over on the subject of scales, but, rather than getting bogged ...

The perception of music in major keys as happy and minor keys as sad is not universal, Australian researchers say What makes a piece of music seem happy or sad? Whether it has been composed in a major ...