We love a good rhythm game. The Nintendo DS is perfect for the genre, and multiple games have already done well using a pretty simple formula of tapping in time with music. Perhaps trying to appeal to ...

Today Agetec announced it will release the music game Rhythm 'n Notes this fall. The title aims to actually improve players' rhythmic and tonal skills with games based on piano and drums. In typical ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Eric Gales has a true gift for foregrounding rhythm in his playing, borrowing from elements of ...

Guitar lessons: The 'beat’ is the regular pulse in music that you tap your foot to – and beats are grouped together into bars. Most music has four beats in a bar ...

Earlier I'd briefly looked at Lesson 4, lost my bottle and ran back to Lesson 3, but today it is time to have a real crack at it. Being a Sunday, I can give it a good few hours. Lesson 4 is all about ...

Embellishments such as diads and chord extensions - along with smaller partial chords - are perhaps what the guitar style of these two infl uential labels are best known for. Players such as Robert ...

Melody and rhythm are almost inextricably linked. I say ‘almost’ because you can have melody or harmony without a distinguishable rhythm, and rhythm itself can exist with no melodic content at all.