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To my (untrained) ear there is a lot of gratuitous sounding dissonance in these progressions. Not sure if an overlay of melody would somehow motivate and tie th

• pishpash 5y ago
  What's missing is voice leading. All of these could make sense, but if hearing it for the time, typically need the horizontal motive explicated. On subsequent listens they sound fine. Also these are hardly dissonant in today's popular music idiom.
  • streamofdigits 5y ago
    that makes sense. I suspect my perception is also colored by my modal / non-Western music exposure: harmonies here are simpler by necessity and an "interesting chord" is invariably a major event(no pun) that needs its space and place in the sequence
    • dumb1224 5y ago
      In my 'non-western music exposure' I feel that we (chinese music) are not exploring the progressions well enough. A lot of emphasis is placed on melodic leading voices but largely ignores the underlying chord progression. Anything that's not overly-heard / played are deemed dissonant and "too foreign". The results are often too sweet sounding and repeating of others. I guess that's why there are not many jazz musicians from China (lol).