The idea here is to see how the chord, scale and lick all relate to each other – the three shapes are pretty similar. Play the A chord with a first-finger barre. Your third finger should fall into ...

Three-note-per-string licks (we'll call them 3 n-p-s, for short) are great for navigating comfortably around the neck because of the natural arrangement of a lot of notes and scales on guitar. Many ...

The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well. For singers and their audiences, being "in tune" might not be as ...

There is also a deeper reason why the music sounds strange: it uses an unusual musical scale in which the intervals between the notes are based on logarithms. Nevertheless, the more you ...

The flutelike song of the hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus), a common North American bird renowned for its musicality, shares several characteristics with human music. The study, published in ...

The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well. At issue is not whether singers hit the right or wrong note ...

The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well. At issue is not whether singers hit the right or wrong note, but how ...