Musiktheorie

Catchiness is not luck. A theory-teacher breakdown of the mechanisms behind an earworm — repetition with variation, melodic contour, expectation...

A step-by-step guide to writing chord progressions: choosing a key, numbering chords with Roman numerals, the three harmonic functions, the...

Why the I-V-vi-IV progression keeps producing hits — consonance, tonal gravity, the relative minor inside, and seamless looping. A theory-teacher...

A structural and harmonic walkthrough of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody — through-composition, descending chromatic bass, secondary dominants, pivot modulations, and chromatic...

An honest, balanced answer: you can produce without formal theory, but a small practical subset removes most trial-and-error. What producers...