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 I was gonna post a thread on harmonic analysis but seeing as this has kinda turned into one, I'll just put it here:
Anyone notice/get excited about the harmonic patterns that occur heavily in certain genres? A few months ago someone pointed out that the post-rock/dreampop progression almost always is centered around vi V IV and different permutations of that, and since he pointed it out I've realized like half of my favorite songs of the genre are like that. I guess the IV and the V give you the optimism that you're going somewhere that feels good, but each and every time you're met with the crushing disappointment of vi......
Same goes for the psychedelic electronic crowd -- Boards of Canada, Oneohtrix Point Never, and sometimes Stars of The Lid (though their harmonic vocabulary is sometimes a little greater than the scope of this next pattern) tend to use a lot of modal mixture, and I've found that if you just make a major triad on top of every note of the minor scale, you get a lot of their favorite chords. So many goddamn BoC and OPN songs based around I, bVII, bVI, IV, bIII, it's not even funny. But i love the vibe, perhaps there's something about the fact that the roots themselves are forming a subconsciously minor scale, and yet all you're hearing is major chords, which goes hand in hand with their themes of a darkness that lies just beneath the surface of gentle synth music
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Yeah, it's good to know! Sometimes i regret going to college for music, but aside from the friends I've made and the facilities I had available to me, the single greatest thing about my program was the 2 years of aural training and theory classes we had to go through.
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Yup, thats the one for metal. It's odd though--the more I think about harmonics, the more im starting to think it doesn't matter that much how much variation you really have going. Like I said, all these bands that I worship tend to find a harmonic style that they like, and then they stick to a lot of the same chords and focus on melodies, arrangements, developments, textures, lyrics, etc. I think musicians (including myself) nowadays get so tripped up on the chords because it is kinda nice to structure things like a puzzle, and perhaps in a way it makes you feel like you can create something immediately more innovative, or perhaps it's just easier than writing melodies so you don't have to leave your comfort zone, but i think more and more that chords hardly matter except for providing a proper harmonic background to the actually important elements of the song!
of course they're both important though who am i kiddin
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