Timeline for What key could the progression Cm - G - Dm - Am be in?
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| Mar 12, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | Matt L. | @Mr.Boy: Thanks, good to know that what you intended was what I heard. I strongly believe that it's always the ears coming first, then the theory (which is always descriptive and can never be prescriptive). | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Mr. Boy | @MattL. I really struggled who to mark as correct and award the bounty to between Matt and Shevliaskovic as they come from different angles and both seem totally credible. I ended up feeling this one was closer to my intent. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 9:48 | history | bounty ended | Mr. Boy | ||
| Mar 12, 2015 at 9:48 | vote | accept | Mr. Boy | ||
| Mar 6, 2015 at 18:44 | comment | added | dennisdeems | This answer makes the best sense of the musical excerpt provided. Two tonal just means we modulate from one key to another, and this is not at all uncommon. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 17:04 | comment | added | Matt L. | @Mr.Boy: Two tonal centers definitely means that it's tonal (otherwise there wouldn't even be one tonal center). If I were to score it, I'd write it in A major. I guess your ideas for the chorus neither support nor weaken my feeling about the chorus. It is probably also in A (well, 'support' then ...), with the B chord being a secondary dominant leading back to E (the V). But this is just speculative because I don't know your melody etc. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 16:11 | comment | added | Mr. Boy |
For what it's worth I was playing with some ideas for a chorus and found that things like E - Bm - A - E and even E - Bm - A - B worked well... meaning we have minor and major versions of E and possibly B. Does that support or weaken your answer?
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | Mr. Boy | While I understand each thing you say, that level of theory is just a bit beyond my normal level in that I'm not sure what the conclusion is... does "two tonal centres" mean it is key-less/atonal? If what I played - the picking pattern - was being scored how would you accomplish this? | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:58 | history | answered | Matt L. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |