Chord progression

artists hating on other people. We have artists that always take it that extra step when it comes to tuning their voices on their tracks that it makes them sound like robots, or take it that extra step that when they go to sing live they’re terrible. Although today’s music industry does have great musicians and some bad ones, the sixties is the era of true and incredible talent. Looking at this in a musicians’ perspective, many popular hits, especially in the 2000’s and on have used the four chords progressions in their songs. The four chords progression involves the same four chords in their tracks which creates the instrumental parts of the song, which pretty much means many songs have the same undergrounding beat. Some examples of songs that use this chord progression are, If I Were a Boy by Beyoncé, Grenade by Bruno Mars, Bailando by Enrique Iglesias, Love The Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna, and the list goes on. In the 60’s many used chords that would switch from minor to major chords. It helps keeping a balance in the music. The Beatles were one of the bigger artists back then that used to do this. Technology has made singing much easier for artist in this day in age. Many popular artists use auto-tune now to correct their voices on their tracks, whereas in the 60’s technology was never this advanced so they had to use they’re raw voices. An example of raw voices is Janis Joplin. She had a voice that wouldn’t have made it in today’s music industry, it was…

posth. 67, No. 2 begins with a double period (mm. 1-16) that briefly modulates in and out of the relative key of B-flat major. The first two measures use a v-i progression in g minor that is the mimicked with a modulated V-I in B-flat in measure three and four to finish the phrase with an IAC to solidify the beginning of the common double period structure. The motif then repeats itself over the v-i progression in g minor again, but changes from the original statement by staying in g minor and…

currents in the brain. The MEG readings from nonmusicians showed cortical entrainment tracked musical stimuli over a typical range of tempi, but the cortical entrainment did not track musical stimuli at tempi below 1 Hz. However, the data from musicians show that the cortical entrainment tracked musical stimuli at 0.7 Hz. While the data did demonstrate that cortical entrainment was enhanced with musical experience, it cannot be concluded that musical training specifically influences cortical…

it. A well-known Caribbean musician is Bob Marley and I know that he uses a lot of syncopation in one of his best songs “three little birds”. In this song you can hear the syncopation in the hi-hat, cymbals, organ and guitar; playing the chords. In this way, he plays with our expectations of where the beat should occur and loosen up the rhythm and give it life. I chose AoS1 because wanted to explore syncopation in both melodic and the rhythmic section lines. I have done this because I wanted to…

The crowd generously cheers as I exit, and with a smile on my face, I gently place my guitar in its case and go home to rest because the next day awaits another performance. Ultimately, my life is a series of different performances. Each song that I play possesses its own unique rhythms and strumming patterns, but the chord progression remains the same. Each task that I take on includes its own circumstances and barriers, but the attributes remain the same. Although I continue to grow and strive…

Society” is a track off of the Free Spirit EP written and recorded by the band Fictionist. The album and corresponding track was written by Stuart Maxfield, Robbie Connolly, Brandon Kitterman, and Aaron Anderson. Free Spirit was released on July 29th, 2016. (Harbour Recordings) This song utilizes a lot of electronic sounds to create an atmosphere of different timbres The introduction to High Society starts with a synthesizer “progression”, of which term I will choose to use loosely, that…

The composition opens in Db major with a tonic chord. Here Debussy has already broken two rules of conventional voice leading; Debussy begins without the tonic note, introducing it later, where the mediant of the chord (F natural) is doubled. This gesture could also be interpreted as opening with chord iii (still with doubled mediant) moving to chord I on the third beat of the bar; however I think this is less likely to be Debussy’s intention because of the use of a Db chord in bar 9 when the…

Polymodality and Dual Modality Concepts and Definitions According to Vincent Persichetti, “polymodality involves two or more different modes on the same or different tonal centers. The modal strands may be melodic or harmonic.” In the most traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal…

directly parodies and references the Beach Boys, with subtler allusions to Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. It is set in the key of A major and has a 4/4 meter. Song form consists of an intro, four verse sections, each followed by a refrain, a bridge that follows only the second and third refrains, and an outro. The melody is undoubtedly bluesy, but further innovates on the blues form by adding a flatted III chord into the standard three chord progression of I, IV, V. It emphasizes this flat III…

This is because for popular music there is a specific style for the chord progression that makes a pop song a pop song. In a chapter in the textbook The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis, it talks about the popular music chord progression. The textbook says the chord progression is I V VI IV (Clendinning). This progression makes the popular music stand out and catchy to some. The textbook says that these chords are the base for the song and that all a musician has to do it repeat them in…