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Using MIDI over USB, it plays the I-V-vi-IV progression in any key. It plays in chord mode, arpeggiated mode, or mixed mode at any sensible tempo. You can check out a video of the 4chord playing ...

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What if you wanted to pep up your progression by straying off the beaten track and throwing in some chords from elsewhere? One way to achieve this is by using what are known as borrowed chords.

Billie Joe Armstrong is usually an avid fan of every heavy genre, but this tune initially confused him by how ugly it sounded ...

A piano’s keyboard doesn’t make sense. If you want to want to play an F major chord, just hit an F, an A, and a C — all white keys, all in a row. If you want to play a B major chord ...

Weber reinterprets "Head Down" with piano and orchestral strings, finding new emotion in the Superunknown song ...

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I picked up an acoustic and Lisa was playing piano and we just started coming up with a motif, a progression ... Lisa: "He pushed for that dissonant chord when he sings 'Sometimes I wish'.

His frank take, backed by a swelling gospel chorus and piano, unspools with realness (“I’m sick of feeling hopeless ... in ...