Tom's Music Blog

There is an abundance of incredible music books for musicians to read. The memoir is the main style, once a rockstar hits a certain age they usually think, let’s write a book! Then there are biographies, interview books, history books, journalist books, fan books, 33 1/3 books and other stories written from the world of music. I love to read music books and believe you can learn a lot about music through the stories and the nuggets of wisdom musicians impart in their book len

Hit songs through the years have used 4 chords played in 4/4 to hit the sweet spot for listeners. 4/4 with the perfect spacing of 4 beats to a bar, then 1 chord per bar repeating the sequence every 4 bars, is a formula we listeners resonate with. It is simple, not implying a lack of musical skill or technique, but the ability to play what is required by the song and melody. Most songs I find are most affective when the melody has room to breathe, through simplicity in time an