Timeline for Analysis of a jazz chord progression
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| Jan 26, 2022 at 13:47 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | @piiperiReinstateMonica. I'm not hung up on anything. Functional harmony means something and it's not "all possible ways to handle a chord." That would render the term meaningless. | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 2:26 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | I tried to say, don't get too hung up on the OP's using the word "functional" - he probably just meant all possible kinds of ways to handle the chord, functional or whatever. Which, I guess, the answer now does, with staff notation examples and all. I'd add a couple more things: compare the sound of the half-diminished Em7-5 with (1) fully diminished Edim7, and (2) Eb maj7. And (3) if you do the Bb maj7 as Bb maj9 i.e. Dm7/Bb. How about: Em7-5, Eb maj7, Eb dim7 (i.e. rootless F7b9), Bb maj9. Or: Em7-5, Edim7, Eb dim7, Bb9. Just to see what the progression could be with a few modifications. | |
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 16:56 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | @LeoAn, I added some more to my answer. Not sure if it answers your question. Do you know the basic definition of passing motion? | |
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | @piiperiReinstateMonica, I don't know, I've never taken an exam to do harmonic analysis. The practical purpose of harmonic analysis is to identify chords in a key. Personally, I only do that when something stands out as unusual. In this question, the only thing analysis tells me is there isn't a clear case for identifying a tonic, which is why my answer is nominally the progression is in Bb. Why the OP wants to analyze, what will they do with the info: I don't know. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 9:20 | comment | added | LeoAn | @michael curtis what do you exactly mean for passing chords? | |
| Jan 22, 2022 at 16:08 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | This makes it seem that the purpose of functional harmony is to correctly label things in an exam. I'd like to expand its practical use to see unfulfilled patterns, what could have happened and what potential expectations were created. Like, seeing that inserting an F7 between Em7b5 and Bbmaj7 would fill a gap. This might give potential patterns to use when writing an arrangement or solo or something. | |
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| Jan 21, 2022 at 16:29 | history | answered | Michael Curtis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |