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Learning to play the guitar with award-winning, Zimbabwean-born guitarist Tony Cox, and rediscovering the simplicity of music. It’s Sunday morning, 10 o’clock. I’m in a cottage alongside the Knysna ...

Some people spend a lifetime studying music theory - and there’s certainly value in doing that - but if you just want to know the basics, fast, ToneGym’s new crash course could be well worth taking.

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...