Questions tagged [chord-progressions]
For questions about sequences of chords, and the relationship of one chord to the next. Typically questions about chord progressions should also be tagged harmony if asking about in depth concepts about them. Questions that are about abstractions of chord progressions use Roman Numeral analysis ...
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1 to Flat-6 to 1 chord progression - Is this a Beethoven thing?
I was fooling around with a song the other day that opened with a C to Ab to C progression, and someone said that it was taken from some composition by Beethoven. Does anyone know if this is true, and ...
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Why is the fifth chord a dominant 7? And if it is a dominant 7, why most of the songs use just D major along with G and not D7?
He says here that D7 is the fifth chord in the key of G. Still in most songs and places, you'll see D being used instead of D7 along with G.
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What is the best way to learn to play songs by ear using chord patterns?
Is there a simple technique to construct or memorize chord pattern of a song If I know the main chord of a song? Also, how to guess the next chord while playing a song. Specially with a guitar.
I ...
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Which scale(s) to use over chord progressions
I have been reading/learning a lot of theory, recently, and whilst this is certainly a good thing, it has left me asking more and more questions.
Take, for example, the following chord progression:
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How to solo over “endless” progression like Alice's Restaurant?
Alice's Restaurant is basically
C A D G C
With most of the chords going to a dominant 7. Is there a name for this type of progression? What is a good strategy for soloing over this type of ...
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What's the correct analysis of this harmonic sequence at the end of the first movement of Dvorak's Fourth Symphony?
I've been puzzling over the best way to analyse the chords that occur at the end of the First Movement of Dvorak's Symphony No. 4 in D minor Op. 13. The passage is definitely part of a harmonic ...
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Use of the VI and v chord in a minor key, subdominant and dominant functional use?
I have a couple of questions related to chord function in natural minor. I have been playing around with chord functions and how they relate to each other. The first chord I am confused by is the ...
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Analyzing Hisaishi Joe's “The Bygone Days” 2
The song is in D Maj
I can't understand how that B Maj at bar 12 came out
G maj7(IV), A(V) then B maj (VI) ?
How does this work ?
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Analyzing Ryuichi Sakamoto's “Self Portrait”
Listen From 00:56
The [E] part is in C Major key
and I can't understand the C#m7-5 chord at bar 3
what is this chord ?
Where did it come from? and what is its function ?
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Chord A7 in piano
I attach a picture with an A7 chord in piano splitted as shown un the picture. Now I know the regular A7 chord is A,C#,E,G. Why was splitted like that in picture (using in treble cleff B,C# and F and ...
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Did Bach ever use melodic minor keys in chorales?
For example, E Melodic Minor would have C#, allowing for a ii7-V-I cadence.
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When playing scales and chords, should I think C D E, C-F-G or root 2 3, I-IV-V?
I try to practice playing some scales every day: C major, G major and A minor pentatonic. Recently I stopped trying to think as much of the position ("string 2 fret 3, string 3 fret 0, string 3 fret 2 ...
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What characteristics make a chord change sound scary/evil? [closed]
I realize that my question is inherently subjective to some degree but I think there might still be some prescriptive techniques to be gleaned from it from experienced composers.
I know that ...
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Analyzing Ryuichi Sakamoto's “Ballet Mécanique” 3
(listen from 2:31)
I don't get how from the [D] part's last bar BbM7 (IV)
you could go to the [E] part (Ab/C).
And if you see the [E] part, you could see that I analyzed it as a modulation to Ab ...
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How does G/B get to A/C#?
(Listen from 0:50)
The song is in F Major
if you see at bar 4 from [B] (Gm7 G/B A/C#)
I don't get the G/B, How could G/B get to A/C# ?
Is it actually E7/B without the G# ? I don't get it
and if ...
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Submediant chords to repeat a song
So I wanna extend the song by replacing the last two chords from 5 - 1 to 5 - 6 or 3M/3 - 6 (Does this make sense? Hehe). For example, in the key of C, I would like to repeat the song by replacing G7-...
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Analyzing Ryuichi Sakamoto's “Ballet Mécanique”
What is that Abadd9/C , Bbm add9/Db on the intro ?
is it just a modal interchange chord bIIIM7 and iv from the parallel minor key ?
If it is, then whats with that inversion ? does it have any ...
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Analyzing Hisaishi Joe's “The Bygone Days”
( Play it from 1:12 to start from the [B] part )
what is that D#m7(11) ?
how does that leads to Gmaj7 ?
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Functional analysis of chorale 'Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe' BWV 244/46
I did some analysis of the chorale 'Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe' (from Matthew Passion BWV 244 no.46), see below. But how would I analyse the first chord in measure 2? Obviously, it's an E ...
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Is this chord bV° or something else?
I don't know much about music theory so I need some explanation!
While playing a tune, I came across this:
(in F minor) Bbm / Bdim7 / C7 / Fmin
Where is that Bdim7 coming from? Would I call it a bV° ...
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Analyzing Ryuichi Sakamoto “Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurence”
The original song is not in C Maj key
but the sheet I Have is in C Maj so let just see as the key is in C maj
(The [B] part starts 1:50)
How does the Gm (Vm) come ...
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Harmonic analysis of arpeggios in Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
I've always liked the arpeggio section in dance of the sugar plum fairy, it sounds so sweet and mysterious. I was trying to figure out the idea behind them. Here's the section in Synthesia.
From ...
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Any ideas to write bassline for the chord progression [closed]
I want to write a bassline for a musical piece. Any ideas about how to write it along with the chord flow. For Example, the chord progression was
Am|Em|F|G
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Is there a specific name for the use of IV chord over the V in the bass, e.g. F/G in the key of C
You see this chord a fair amount, usually leading to the tonic as a sort of souped-up plagal cadence (plagal in the treble, perfect in the bass).
Is there a specific name for this, other than "4 over ...
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could this be a half step chord progression?
At bar 3 to 4
the "Em7-5" goes to "Dm/F"
could this be consider as a half step chord movement ? because the inversion bass F ?
even tough "Em7-5" and the actual chord "Dm" without the inversion is not ...
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Why do these chords from the plastic bag scene in American Beauty work?
I'm trying to figure out the theory behind these three chords and why they work together. At first I thought it was a C major scale since it tends to want to go there. But there's flats in there so ...
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characterizing chord progression (simple) [closed]
I wrote this chord progression not looking at popular progressions or anything but just following my ear one chord at a time. Can you help me figure out if it's a plausible progression for a song in A ...
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Scott Pilgrim's Ramona Analysis
Can anyone well versed in music theory help me comprehend what is going on in Scott Pilgrim's Ramona?
From what I can tell, there are 3 sets of 3 chords, each seem to be going to a specific place. ...
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identifying chord in guitar study
I am unsure about which chords I am playing in the guitar study I below
Especially I'd loke to know:
is the chord in the 3rd bar on beat 3 and 4 a dm7b5 or rather an inversion of an Fm6 or something ...
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How to modulate from minor to parallel major
I'm trying to find a good modulation from Dm to D. I know that I could use Dm-A7-D but it feels a bit to unsophisticated.
I thought that I maybe could do something like Dm-X-C-X-Em-X-D where X is ...
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Why does this harmony work?
Here's Soma by The Strokes. If I'm not mistaken, the verse progression moves simply from a G chord to an F chord repeating. If the key is C, then this is just V-IV-V-IV etc. Since the chords are only ...
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melody starting point on song parts
Hi I'm writing a song in a Bb Major key
and the chords goes something like
EbM7 , F7 , Gm7
and the first note of the melody starts with G note. (this is the main chorus part)
And if the verse part ...
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Using Roman Numeral Notation with Notes in the Bass (not figured bass)
I have a situation where I want to use Roman numerals to express a chord progression. In the jazz Real Book, this would look something like this:
(key of A major)
A A/G A/F# A/E
I imagine this ...
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Asymmetric ease of improvisation during modulation
I've been learning about modes, and one thing I was interested in at first was to change modes while improvising (to get to know them better technically as well as to have a better understanding of ...
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Is GbM7 to DbM7/F also a chromatic movement?
I was writing a song in Bbm key.
And the chord progression goes something like.
Bbm,GbM7, DbM7/F
In this situation does the GbM7 going to DbM7/F
also consider as chromatic progression ?
If it is,why ...
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Chord Progression Analysis: AbJo [closed]
One of my favorite musical artists (Abjo), writes chord progressions that have always really resonated with me. I've always been curious to hear an analysis of the theory behind them (as I do not know ...
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Common Diatonic Chords Progressions? [closed]
The chords shown below are already compatible with the C Major scale. These are the diatonic chords.
I ii iii IV V vi viidim
C major = C , Dm , Em , ...
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How to use Jim Fleser's chord wheel for minor progressions?
I'm using the chord wheel by Jim Fleser to try figure out some chords that would go well with a baseline I played.
But, I don't understand how minor progressions work with this chord wheel. Where ...
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Pentatonic Scale and Chord Qualities
I am trying to play the pentatonic in the Key of G-Major. But like in Major scales we have the sequence Maj-min-min-Maj-Maj-min-dim, is there something for Pentatonic as well.?
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What do we call a chord progression that doesn't have a tonic chord?
I came up with a chord progression the other day:
Fm7 Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 G7
It's clearly in C minor. But instead of resolving to Cm, I was looping through it. What catched my attention was that it ...
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Trouble writing chord progressions in minor
I've been composing in major for some time and decided to work in a minor key for practice. It's not going too well – I'm having trouble using common techniques in major, such as utilizing the ...
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Getting fingers to land in the same place
So, I can't seem to get my fingers to land in the same place when changing chords no matter how many times try. As an example, I can play a two-chord change if I practice it for 10 minutes. But I'll ...
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The major to minor/minor to major switch
From my previous question I decided to search for some info on switching between major and minor and the other way around.
Unfortunately, I cannot find anything. And unfortunately, I couldn't find ...
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Odd chord progression sounds perfect to my ears
I was playing yesterday and made up this 4 bar chord progression:
Cm, F, C, Fm
It's odd I guess, but it sounds perfect to what I am singing over it.
Does it comply with music rules and is it anyway ...
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What's the theory behind Chim Chim Cher-ee?
Chim Chim Cher-ee has a fantastic chord structure:
i, IIIaug, III, IV, iv, i, II7, V
Most of those transitions make sense to me. However, there are three transitions that I don't quite understand:
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Reharmonization of pop songs, chord substitution
I watched the video
where the educator showed a (diatonically ?) reharmonized version of the minor key pop song 'Shape of You' where the original harmonies were:
Dm | ...
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Help me understand the chord progression I just wrote?
I'm a guitarist who tends to write by ear but is trying to understand more theory. I came up with this progression I'm using for a song while noodling around with variations of the classic I-V-IV-V.
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theory - D major in F major chord progression?
I am taking a music theory online course and there is an example I don't understand. The chord progression is:
F Bb C F D Gm C7 FMaj7
The first 4 bar is just I-IV-V-I and the last three bar is II-V-...
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Is there any compendium mapping chord progressions to mood and sentiments? [closed]
Came across an Android app that enlists chord progressions with a mapping to mood or sentiment that it conveys (or expected to convey, I presume to certain audience). For various reasons, I am bit ...
