HTryan

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   by HTryan 14y ago

   I think one of the primary issues with popular music is that it's often ambiguous whether it's in a major or minor mode, even when the song starts on a minor chord. Classically, one would mark the transition to a minor mode by the existenc
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   by HTryan 14y ago

   Good points. Many rules in popular music come directly from classical music (after all, it's been around for a while). However, as you can see in the Hooktheory database, there are many progressions that seem to be unique to popular music.
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   by HTryan 14y ago

   Hey Jimmy, Hooktheory stores all of its chord progressions in relative notation so we have tools to answer questions like the one you've posted here. Although the Hooktheory database is relatively small, we have 20 songs that contain I vi
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   by HTryan 14y ago

   Right, all of the songs were normalized to C, which exactly the point. At Hooktheory.com you can examine all of the songs in relative notation (i.e. I IV V in place of C F G) which makes it easier to compare chord progressions without havi
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   by HTryan 14y ago

   Exactly. D Major chord is a V/V in C Major, which has only a couple of common uses in popular music according to the Hooktheory database. V/V -> V7 -> I is one common one. Another is a substitution for ii, like: I -> V/V -&#6