“This one tip could change your musical outlook forever”: 10 music theory tricks every producer and songwriter should know

Music theory basics: understanding intervals, and how they define the distance in pitch between two notes.

For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool about it.

Talk of Major and Minor scales conjure up images of dry, dusty, bewigged baroque musicians from centuries past, the nightmare of childhood piano lessons, or baffling overheard discussions in jazz clubs concerning the superiority of augmented 13ths over Neapolitan sixths.