Animbling we will go (old English for left hand exercises, synth fans).

Find out what keyboard and guitar chords have got to do with Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.

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keyboard kudos

Just what happens when a group of keyboardists get together to improve their improvisation chops?

A pile of useful stuff on the gaps between the notes that make chords sound (mostly) nice.

Our beginners' synth column isn't just for tech types, but guitarists, drummers, even roadies too

More keyboard tips, useful exercises, and a chord of the month.

Find out what compound intervals are. Oh all right then, they're a kind of dead useful chord.

keyboard cures

keyboard clues

Thirteenths and onwards. Intervals? We gorrem flat. We gorrem sharp.

Got two hands haven't you? So what do you do with the left one?

keyboard column

Lots of chords, including the diminished fifth modified dominant seventh.

Improvisation. You know, making it up, off the top of your head. Of course you can do it.

the development of synth electronics

does it work?

keyboards through the ages

a dictionary of terms

five stars pick their fave sounds

Vince Clarke, Jon Lord, Steve Levine, Bill Nelson, John Foxx... five heroes of the keyboard nominate their favourite synth tracks and sounds

And A Happy Birthday To Us

Come to our party, have some jelly, read some of our best bits, and wish us a happy first birthday, hip hip...