Find out how your hands are motivated to play music.

We share with you the simple guitar chord trick upon which most pop music is based.

Now it's time to learn the easy four-chord turnaround: write great pop songs, make money etc.

Bass Playing & Programming

How low can you go?

An odd Simon Trask tackles odd time signatures

Bass Playing & Programming

Get in touch with the subculture, courtesy of Simon Trask

Simon Trask hits the bottom once more

Bass playing & programming

Getting deep, deep down in Part 3 of Simon Trask's series on the bassline.

Bass playing & programming

The low down on the down low

Bass Playing & Programming

His name is Trask (Simon) - and he is funky. More hot tips on the bottom end for the keyboard-based musician, with a look at the styles and techniques of funk. You can’t get any lower.

MT's bass-o-matic goes into automated ninth spin

Bass playing & programming

Simon Trask presents another bassline he prepared earlier. And I thought the Bass Clef was a club in Islington

Jazz-funk in the basement

Transposing Songs

That's about it actually: the headline sums it all up. Are we in the right key?

Two-Chord Songs

Just two, yup. Everyone from the Who to Duran Duran has used the trick. Now you can.

Music

This month the Wiggly marks and funny numbers of musical notation are explained proper, like.

Deep Underground

Part 8: Deep underground, this month Dave Stewart tells how you can work within the pop medium yet still manage to create interesting music!