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How four notes can be enough to make great music

Using fewer notes changes how melodies are written. Focus shifts to rhythm, phrasing, and repetition. Four notes can create ...
The trio have refined their approach to a project they only started for fun, admitting it’s exploded beyond any of their ...
Britney Spears is speaking out after several family members — including her son Preston and her mom Lynne — spent Christmas ...
Guns N’ Roses’ 1992 hit November Rain is one of the greatest power ballads of all time – and in the creation of singer Axl ...
Ten years after its first album, Ghost-Note is something different than Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth envisioned when they started the group in Dallas. The two -- Searight on drums and ...
Epiphanies come, as epiphanies do, in unexpected and often far-flung settings. For trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, three such ...
Few in music are as successfully eclectic as Don Was, a bassist, producer, bandleader and record label president.
There is a long-standing debate in the field of music cognition about the impact of musical training and whether formal ...
In the 1820s, Louis Braille devised a raised-dot system of letters, numbers and musical notation. 200 years later, it’s still ...
More musical acts pull out of performances after Trump slaps his name on the building – key US politics stories from 30 December at a glance ...
Jazz singer Josie Falbo died on Jan. 1 after a year-long fight with cancer. She was 82 and had just released a new album.
How a father, a daughter, and 360 band directors brought a warehouse full of adults to tears in the closing hours of 2025.