Latest articles by Jimmy Brown
Presenting a more musically sophisticated variation on the standard 12-bar blues.
Learn a jazz guitar comping technique that provides interesting chord movement and rhythmic “push.”
Tell an engaging story and make a powerful statement with second-inversion minor chords.
And now, something less serious than Beethoven.
Learn more about the first-inversion minor chord, an invaluable resource for the aspiring composer.
Look at a few brief examples of well-known songs that feature the use of a second-inversion chord.
An introduction to minor add2’s blissful, optimistic sibling, the major add-2 arpeggio.
Learn some compositionally effective ways in which first-inversion chords have been used in popular music.
Some musically appealing ways that great songwriters have used first-inversion chords to craft progressions behind their melodies.
Get a primer on this appealing and useful hexatonic scale.
