34 Answered Questions for the topic chord theory

Chord Theory Music Theory Theory

03/27/19

Are chord resolutions objective?
Im looking into chord resolution at the moment and i wonder from then way people in online tutorials talk about them if a certain chord always resolves to the same chord. Or does it depend on its... more
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03/27/19

B5 power chord in A minor?
I'm trying to write a rock/punk song in the key of A minor and the chorus goes: B5, C5, G5, F5. The B chord in A minor is B diminished, does that mean I have to use the diminished chord or can I... more
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Chord Theory Guitar Music Theory Jazz

03/26/19

Did Jeff Beck "play the changes" on Goodbye Porkpie Hat?
I have read several different accounts of Charles Mingus' reaction to Jeff Beck's cover of Goodbye Porkpie Hat. One account says he liked it and sent Jeff a note saying this while another says he... more
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Chord Theory Music Theory Theory Harmony

03/26/19

Alternative theories of harmony?
Do you know of any alternative (to functional) descriptive theories of harmony or attempts at creating them? By that I mean attempts to explain both functional and non-functional harmonies in a... more
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Chord Theory Music Theory Theory Chords

03/19/19

How do I correctly borrow chords from one key to another?
So how does one decide to borrow chords? Let's say I am in the key of C Major. Can I borrow chords, say, from the G Major key? How does this work?
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03/18/19

What technique was being used in composing this background music for a film?
At around six minutes and 40 seconds of this Youtube video, https://youtu.be/9kK-Z-hCOow this gentleman talks about using minor and major thirds and how it was supposed to mimic the sound of a... more
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Chord Theory Songwriting Composition Key

03/18/19

The Chords in this progression sound great but don't belong together - so why do they work?
I am a songwriter and compose my own music to go with my lyrics. Most of my chord progressions follow common patterns like using a I V IV or I IV V with an occasional ii or iii or vi chord thrown... more
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03/18/19

How can you tell the chords of a piece of music if you can only hear bass and melody?
How can you tell the chords of a piece of music if you can only hear bass and melody? There are a lot of possibility that it can be more than a single chord..Also, would be better like this.. To... more
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03/14/19

Film Scoring non-diatonic chord changes. Any good books?
so I've been reading about film scoring and how the composers typically use non-diatonic chord progressions (M3, m3 and tritone), for example C major to E-major and C major to E-flat major; to... more
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