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Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red Chord Progression
This progression is sampled from a Dionne Warwick’s “Walk On By” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in the early 1960’s.
It is not uncommon to use a ii chord with a natural 5th in pop music in a ...
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Explain chord progression
Whenever you encounter a non-diatonic chord, it's worth checking if it's a modal interchange or a secondary chord. And perhaps also trying enharmonic spelling variations.
G# and A# could be rewritten ...
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Explain chord progression
You'll probably find it easier to justify G#, A# and D# if you spell them as A♭, B♭ and E♭.
There are many reasons why a chord can 'fit'. The most simple is when it's diatonic in the home key or in ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
Probably no official name for this. But it could be that you're hearing V>IV in key C (G>F). This is a common change in any accompaniment, and trying it in different keys - A>G in key D for ...
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Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red Chord Progression
Here we go again! Songs do not have to only possess chords that are diatonic!! Who spreads this misinformation?!
Playing an F chord after shows that the key would indeed be F major, not that that is ...
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Explain chord progression
Another way to treat the C-Em-C-Em is to think of it as C/E-Em-C/E-Em. Slash notation doesn't really show what's happening. If you think of the notes, one has EGC-EGB-EGC-EGB; the EG interval stays ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
I believe the answer to this question is a combination of the accepted answer by @user94416 and the answer given by @Tim. Both answers have merits and in this case are both responsible for the ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
I hear this now and then, but not always. I think that we (often) hear the root movement as well as the actual frequency. The frequency of each note rises but the chordal root moves down from G to F
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Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red Chord Progression
Although the key of G minor has Eb (so, yes, Adim or Amin7b5), in practice, G minor can also include E natural and F#. F# is the leading tone, so often inserted into minor to create stronger cadences, ...
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Question about chord progressions and scales
where does this chord come from?
A D minor chord in the key of C minor comes from chromatic alteration. The pitches are D, F, and A. But the diatonic sixth degree of C minor is A flat, not A ...
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Question about chord progressions and scales
The Dm7b5 is the chord built on the second degree of C minor. The triad built on D in C minor is diminished, it is D-F-Ab but if you extend it to a 7th chord it becomes D-F-Ab-C which has two names, D ...
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Explain chord progression
We agree with other respondents here that G# makes more sense when named Ab (and so on) in this situation. We have found numerous uses of this flat 6 (Ab), flat 7 (Bb), 1 (C) chord progression in ...
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Question about chord progressions and scales
'So I looked up the C minor scale'. That's the beginning of where it went wrong!
You found the natural minor scale - with 3 flats, the relative minor to E♭ major. Trouble is, there are two more C ...
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Why does a chord sound lower although the individual notes went up?
You have some good answers already but here is a possible explanation. It is implied by some of the others but not quite stated.
If we assume that the notes are just tuned or close enough for us not ...
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