listening for music that has chord progressions i don’t understand and then looking them up continues to be going well
this progression from focus by h.e.r. is made of sex. it voice-leads gorgeously but i don’t get it harmonically in the slightest
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this is what it sounds like when i do it instead of h.e.r. 😅 this took more takes than i would’ve liked but in my defense i heard this song for the first time yesterday
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oh shiiiiiit there’s a descending chromatic line in the chords
E (from E major)
D# (from B major)
D (from G#dim7)
C# (from F# minor)
C (from F# dim)
B (from E major)
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there’s this big gap in my music theory education. i took ~two music theory classes in college: harmony and counterpoint, and a dope class called “music after 1960” with a lot of avant garde atonal stuff in it. but i don’t think i got a good grounding in like jazz harmony
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like i’m not even sure where to look to understand the harmonic ideas here. it’s obviously not totally atonal. is this jazz stuff?
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this is really cool
was confused by the F#m7 going to a F#m7b5, until I realized it's enharmonic with an A6 to Am6, which makes it basically a standard IV - iv - I cadence in disguise
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oh is IV - iv - I a standard cadence? i had no idea! but it voice leads and sounds great so checks out. is the iv here to be interpreted as borrowing from minor? i was trying to interpret it as some kind of wacky secondary and getting real confused
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Seems like it modulates to A (F#m), and at the end it uses F#m’s b5 (C) to smoothly lead back to E’s fifth.
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