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Listing the "most frequent chord" is a weird analysis, I'm more interested in the "most frequent key", or a transition matrix from one key to another, e.g., if
by cjohnson318 1y ago
Listing the "most frequent chord" is a weird analysis, I'm more interested in the "most frequent key", or a transition matrix from one key to another, e.g., if I'm in F, what's the chance I go a fifth up to C, or a fourth down to Bb. Just telling me G is a popular chord doesn't do much.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoThe "haunting" riff in the Hounds song features a tritone, and it's a modal-ish progression - perhaps with hints of folk music lurking in the background. You're not going to understand it by counting chords. A lot of pop has these quirks. Even things that sound like I-IV-V or I-V-vi-IV bubble gum. Slapping labels on the most obvious chords in a naive way misses them completely.
- domenici2000 1y agoExactly, this is useless. It's like saying the letter E is the most used letter in the world and Wheel of Fortune is your dataset.
- johnfn 1y agoIt's significantly worse than that. It's like saying the letter E is the most common letter in a corpus of text where most of the text has been ceasar-shifted.
- edoceo 1y agoG is the best one though, maybe D.