"Bon Jovi did it in "Livin' on a Prayer," Michael Jackson in "Man in the Mirror," and Celine Dion in "My Heart Will Go…"

"Over centuries of music, composers have used modulations and changes in the key of the music to express emotion, dram…"

"Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have something in common: a key change, like the one you hear in Whitne…"

"Someone killed the key change in pop music, and I’m going to do whatever it takes to find the perpetrator."

"Changing the key – or shifting the base scale of a song – is a tool used across musical genres to "inject energy" int…"

"One thing I always encourage everyone to do is just try modulating in any direction. Just try it. Use the things you …"

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."

"You have to let music take you over, put ego aside, be a clean conductor – in the electrical sense."

"A fugue is like a canon, in that it is usually based on one theme which gets played in different voices and different…"