How is ‘good’ defined when it comes to music? Have you ever wondered what makes a chord progression ‘good’? All of them are excellent questions that we are trying to answer on today’s topic! Music History 101: Back in the day, in the 1200s or so – really way back – music was considered an […]
Continue reading →This time we’re going to learn about one of the most popular chord progressions ever. How popular? Well, enough to be part of these musical hits: Cryin’ – Aerosmith Graduation – Vitamin C Basket Case – Green Day Hotel California – The Eagles (a minor mode version of it) Valley of the Damned – Dragonforce […]
Continue reading →In our first post we were talking about the names of notes, it’s placement on keyboard, Major scale construction method and how “Piano Companion” application can help you in memorising all these musical things. Today, we are going to discuss how to build a Minor scale using the same method as we used for a […]
Continue reading →If you are willing to be a musician and want to express your own ideas and feelings, it is really essential to learn at least some basics of music theory. Especially if you are thinking about writing your own songs and musical compositions. For many people who has never been a musician, a “Music Theory” […]
Continue reading →For the last few months, we have been working to import full functionality from both our iOS & Android apps directly into a full-service web UI (check out our full web intro here). Previous to these updates, Songtive only operated in ‘view mode’, which allowed users to see and listen to visual representations of chords. We have […]
Continue reading →It’s been awhile since our previous update for iOS, but we were working hard to bring you another set of great features. First of all, we are happy to announce that Piano Companion has changed an icon! Secondly, that update is dedicated to scales and common chords mostly. Many of you were asking for alternative fingering for […]
Continue reading →We are proud to announce that the latest update of Songtive Web has Styles and Drums editors available for you! You don’t need to have Songtive iOS in front of you to see and even create styles or drums which could be used in your composition later. Starting with that update a user profile contains the list […]
Continue reading →Another Songtive update has just became available. One of the major feature in that update is ability to signup using your email; you don’t need to have Facebook, Google+ or Twitter account to start using Songtive. We added ability to create more than one section of the same section type and Songtive will use them randomly as […]
Continue reading →We are proud to introduce a new Songtive feature – Remixes. Starting from that update you will be able to take a song then change chords, styles or drum set and publish it. Let’s see how it works! We are going to change a song All of Me. The original song contains only one style which […]
Continue reading →Once we released major update in Piano Companion for iPhone/iPod/iPad, lots of you asked to implement the same functionality for Piano Companion for Android. Starting with version 4.2, scale details screen has common supported chords. Moreover, it lists main analytical labels: Secondary Dominant and Secondary Leading-Tone to get even deeper overview of the scale. We ported colouring engine from Songtive […]
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