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 ...

(Image credit: Apple) Step 1: Here’s a MIDI part playing a four-chord progression - C, Am, F, Em, with all chords played in root position. This means that the root note of each chord is at the bottom ...

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 try starting your progression with a major chord and then – wham! – hit them with a non-diatonic minor chord – one that’s not in the key, that they won’t have been expecting. For an idea of what ...

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, ...