Key changes - or ‘modulations’, to give them their proper, music theory-professor name - may have become a bit of a pop cliché (picture Westlife stepping off their stools), but knowing how to craft a ...

Any piece of music has at its heart a sort of ‘tonal centre’, no matter whether you’re dealing with a simple, one-chord groove or a complex symphonic masterpiece. The tonal centre is the base key that ...