In this edition of SampleRadar, we're getting our funk on, and it's all about the keys: organs, electric pianos and synths.

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

Last week’s column on automated school zone speeding cameras struck a chord — and not a minor one. Several people wrote in with their stories about being dinged for speeding in areas they did not know ...

For indie artists, being online is no longer about having just a MySpace profile page. It’s about connecting with fans which helps them score gigs as well as sell their music online. R Krishna Updated ...

It's a motif that blends two different keys (A major and A minor), but the most transgressive violation of the music theory rulebook lay in how the song’s time signature re-calibrates itself ...

Alright now we're talking about diminished chords. You can draw two boxes, we'll have a minor 3rd on top, and a minor 3rd on the bottom. And we can come over here and just flat that 5th degree ...