News

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing ...
Lo-fi is to audio what black-and-white or sepia-tinted film is to visual. Often lo-fi tracks will loop a sample from an old vinyl record, complete with scratches and crackles, then drop it over a ...
Step 9: So now that we have the diatonic chords all identified and labelled up, we can try to find a progression that might fit our melody notes. The most commonly-used chords in any key are the ...
Can a chord ask a question? In this video, we explore how ambiguous harmony and unresolved chords can create tension and ...
Extended chords are great for this. In the key of A minor, we’ve programmed two extended chords, two bars each. Am9 followed by Fmaj9, and for each we’ve left out the 7th. You may like Usable music ...
Bodily maps of uncertainty and surprise in musical chord progression and the underlying emotional response. iScience , 2024; 109498 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109498 Cite This Page : ...
So, what about the chord progression at issue in the lawsuit? When I listen to the songs in question, Mr. Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” and Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” I hear a ...
Hook Theory is a song database, and after analyzing 1,300 popular songs, looking at the chord progressions in each, it spit back some pretty cool visualizations.
The pop star strummed a four-chord progression from “Thinking Out Loud” in a Manhattan courtroom, seeking to separate his work from Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” ...
Learning progressions describe typical sequences of learning in specific areas or disciplines. A familiar parallel would be a curriculum that is designed to help a student learn about a particular ...
The reasons that the progression of I, IV, V is so pleasing to the human ear is that those chords are built upon the three most consonant intervals with the tonic: I (1:1) V (3:2) IV (4:3) In fact, ...