Like its Lydian cousin, the Mixolydian mode deviates from the major scale by just one note – the major 7th, which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that gives ...

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Slash's grandma had the blues and rock 'n' roll is better for it. The famed Guns 'N Roses guitarist, who just dropped the blues album “Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival” on Nov. 7, was rocking and ...

These classic rock chord progressions were not common at the time, and that's precisely what made their songs such big hits.

With colossal 1975 classic rock tracks like Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, it’s easy to overlook additional gems released the same year. Midway through the decade, ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...