Hello, we are Kate Harmony & Ray Harmony (AKA Revolution Harmony), and welcome to the Hack Music Theory show, where you are empowered with notation-free theory for making great music in DAWs. In today's video/podcast, you'll learn learn 2…

Watch this Hack Music Theory video to learn how to write better chord progressions, by using melodic motifs, a pedal root, anticipations, sus chords, inversions, and more. These music theory hacks will take your songwriting and music production…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is shaping up to be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we're doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is shaping up to be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we're doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is shaping up to be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we're doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is shaping up to be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we're doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is shaping up to be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we're doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is gonna be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we'll be doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas challenge…

Are you ready for some crazy Christmas fun? Good, cos December is gonna be a wild ride here at the Revolution Harmony studio, as we'll be doing daily Hack Music Theory videos. Yeah!!!

So, here's our Christmas challenge…

Whether you're an electronic music producer or a guitarist in a band, you're gonna want contagiously catchy riffs in your songs! So, today on the Hack Music Theory show, we reveal our 6 hacks to write catchy riffs…

So you wanna write a smash hit? Well, you're gonna need a mega memorable chorus then, starting with your chords.

Watch this Hack Music Theory lesson to learn how to use modes and chords to write a mega…

Most verses in most songs these days are merely filler, something to stick in between the choruses. Verses can be captivating, though, and here's a hack for achieving this: Up Your Verse Game (Tweak Your Modes) – 8…

It's been a MASSIVE week for our Hack Music Theory show on YouTube, and we now have over 27,000 subscribers. WHOA!!! To celebrate, we want to make ourselves even more helpful.

Considering one of the biggest problems that…

You won't believe what we did... We made a country song! Wait, before you click the unsubscribe button, this is not mainstream country, this is seriously alternative country! In fact, it's not really country music at all, but…

We're over the moon happy to bring you today's super special episode of the Hack Music Theory show.

What's so special about it? Well, two things actually: Firstly, we recently had the great pleasure and honour of discussing…

It's taken us five months of non-stop work (literally!) to build a YouTube community of 500 people. But then, something unbelievable happened this week...

After uploading our video Jacob Collier, Negative Harmony & How to Write a Negative…

Today on the Hack Music Theory show: How to Write Great Lyrics That Match Your Vocal Melodies.

Melodies are musical stories, and so many songs these days end up with their lyrics and vocal melodies telling two…

Today on 3-Minute Theory: How to make your programmed MIDI chord progressions sound like a real live human played them on a real live instrument.

The first thing we need to do is understand what makes something sound…

Today on 3-Minute Theory: How to bring your chord progressions to life!

We’re still in D Dorian, and using the white-note hack, we previously wrote this chord progression: Dm → Am → Em → Gmaj. As you can see…

Today on 3-Minute Theory: How to make a chord change flow smoothly when you don’t have a common note.

We’re in D Dorian, and using the white-note hack we previously wrote this chord progression: Dm → Am →…

Today on 3-Minute Theory: How to make your chord progressions flow like a pro!

What we’re really talking about here are chord changes. So, let’s have a look at the chord progression we made in the previous lesson, using…

How to Write a Chord Progression Using Chords Not in the Key

Knut from the electronic music hub of Tromsø in Norway, emailed us with this question: “I’ve spent some time analyzing an old track from The Prodigy…

As with most things in life, writing a great vocal melody is all about balance: Balancing harmonic and non-harmonic notes, balancing small and large melodic intervals, balancing short and long note values, and so on…

Alex from Montreal asked the following question in the comments of our Hack-A-Hit video on The Chainsmokers: “In your other videos you emphasized always starting your modes on their root chords, because that gives the listener a…

The Dorian mode is our sad but hopeful sounding mode. Using the white note hack, Dorian is what you get when you play all the white notes, starting from D…