Guys, did you watch Zimmer's latest interview with Beato? At one point, he says: "—man, I love Brazilian music... those chords are amazing!..." and Beato: "—I Know!!!" So, check out all the Jobim-style bossa nova and the Brazilian guitar repertoire (Yamandú, Bellinati, Powell, Rabelo, Guinga, Delmiro among others).

 

Yes and no, here you see the limits of sw.
While Decoda is a great tool for getting a guideline, most of times doesn't go much in details, it misses complex chords (e.g. diminished, 7, inversions, etc.), in this case it's 4/4 (not very important however) and the STARTING key is Gm, then...

Down below the pasted content of a post I made five years ago about that song (thread: https://audiosex.pro/threads/i-need-help-with-figuring-out-scale-chords-of-a-specific-piece.52882/).
The video used then is no more, but this one should fit roughly timestamps.
Oh and BTW don't mind too much about mentioned modes, the real thing in a key is always tonic and dominant (I and V).

 

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The blessed cloud of harmony stationed over Brazil for decades indeed! This is pop music from 1980:

 

 

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If only

 

Yo, Foster, don't forget me!! How could ya?
I'm still waiting for your... mmm.. defamation suit, was it? They banned you again for that even in sister site and you still on it... man, you're beyond any hope...
Good luck until they ban you again. 15th time I think... but well, who's counting?

 

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Exactly. By asking the type of chord for a genre will only further limit yourself, by doing exacttly the same most people in your prefered genre are already doing. It's just the instrumentation in most cases that will determine the genre..

It may be a better idea to ask which chords are typically used in order to avoid them, if the intention is to make original music (as far as that is possible)

 

I've always heard the stereotypical anime chord progressions are:
IV-V-vi or IV-V-iii-vi

with IV-V-iii-vi being a variation that includes a passing chord (iii) and is referred to as the "Royal Road" or "Koakuma" progression.

I'm not HUGE into anime, but I do recognize that the music has a distinctive sound. In general, a lot of Japanese music uses Western scales but in uniquely creative way.

 

Okay, so there are too many genres to explain musically.

@Somnambulist


(https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0719/)
(https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0719/POST-PN-0719.pdf)

Why limit ourselves? Wouldn't learning different genres and different codes rather expand ourselves?

Does that mean that today's musicians are corrupt people?

 

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Look four posts below me and back already

 

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BOOM

This is how truly original music is born by not drawing solely from any single style. The Police and Sting carved their own sound that way.

 

Music should be added to the end of this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics

 

Your comment has quite a few misunderstandings.

The key of a piece is determined by a combination of factors including the scale used, the arrangement of harmonies, and the tonal center established throughout the song, not merely the first note or chord played. Your approach is highly restrictive. Musicians often incorporate non-diatonic chords (chords not found within the scale of the key) for color and contrast, such as secondary dominants, borrowed chords from parallel keys, and modal interchange. The KEY of a piece is defined by its tonal center, which is the note or chord that feels like "home" or the point of resolution in the piece. Many pieces start on chords other than the tonic to create tension that resolves later.

 

The more i read your comment, i think you were being sarcastic/trolling lol

 

Why are we here? Because we think there is something we don't know yet. We all have this problem. We all seek the truth about music but never find it. Even past far-famed composers have faced this problem. The nature of chords is a serious bone of contention. Physics is the only surefire tool to better understand this. There is no clear answer yet, but perhaps this issue can be further investigated in the future.