Chords are an illusion created by a rapid arpeggio. Tests at Cern have confirmed this as well as Swiss horn players bouncing notes off the alps using an atomic clock for precision and a metric ton of Ricola for stamina.

The last vein of pure quarter notes was discovered in Alaska in 1870, it is nearly exhausted. Almost all quarter notes in current use are synthetic and share at least one systemic flaw that could cause them all to malfunction simultaneously under the "right" vibrational conditions.

We compose in treacherous times, the landscape beneath our very feet shifting invisibly, transmitting silent terror into our spinal cortex and thence to our central nervous system, accounting for the strange and dubious qualities of modern music as our brain and ears hear sounds not present and paint a landscape that does not exist, that we cannot understand or share.

The very atoms of the universe are slowing and reversing their spin functions, effectively backward masking not just all future music, but all future reality. Soon DAW releases will begin numbering their releases in inverted order, dropping towards the zero line where all daws will disappear back to version one, thence to Alpha, and then the bytes won't bite and the midi, whon't mid.

Lay in a 3 year supply of notes, bytes, chords, chord wood, and Tobblerone, water, brandy, and cheap cigars, old Future Music magazines, and phonograph records. The future will belong to the prepared.

I was given this information by AI Marvin Gaye in the hopes that a remnant of our world might survive to rebuild after the crossing, laugh,cry, rage, but in the end please prepare, for the end of the world is near. but have no fear,its not this year.

 

@L-D Don't go. You're definitely an expert on music. Don't take revenge on yourself for a simple thing. That's what music is. There are many opinions and everyone expresses their own experience. Music originates from physics and mathematics and is intertwined with different cultures. Everyone's culture is different, and therefore their attitude towards music is different.

 

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### 1. Pop
- I–V–vi–IV: C–G–Am–F
- I–vi–IV–V: C–Am–F–G
- I–V–ii–IV: C–G–Dm–F

### 2. Rock
- I–IV–V: C–F–G
- I–V–vi–IV: C–G–Am–F (also popular in pop)
- ii–V–I: Dm–G–C (common in classic rock)

### 3. Blues
- I–IV–V: C–F–G (12-bar blues)
- I7–IV7–V7: C7–F7–G7

### 4. Jazz
- ii–V–I: Dm7–G7–Cmaj7
- I–vi–ii–V: Cmaj7–Am7–Dm7–G7
- I7–IV7–ii7–V7: C7–F7–Dm7–G7

### 5. Country
- I–IV–V: C–F–G
- I–V–vi–IV: C–G–Am–F (also common in pop)
- I–IV–vi–V: C–F–Am–G

### 6. Reggae
- I–IV–V: C–F–G
- I–V–vi–IV: C–G–Am–F (similar to pop)

### 7. Metal
- I–bVII–IV: C–Bb–F
- i–VI–VII: Am–F–G (for minor keys)
- I–IV–V: C–F–G (used in various styles)

### 8. Folk
- I–IV–V: C–F–G
- I–vi–IV–V: C–Am–F–G

6 Types Of Chords Every Producer Needs To Know

 

Chord Progressions Explained - How to Write a Song With Instruments
www.soundtrap.com/de/content/blog/chord-progressions-explained

 

@Garamondo Furbish good piece of music.

 

In my opinion, it is impossible to relate genres to chords and their progressions. Perhaps by listening to some of the most iconic songs in each genre, you might think that each of these genres works on specific chord progressions, but this is only a superficial perception of musical genres. I myself believe that there is no strong connection between genres and specific progressions. Generalization is usually fraught with problems. This is only my opinion.

 

I can't believe I'm replying to a Foster personality, but here is my retort...write a song. It of course won't for you be "professional" but just give it a try and go from there. Using AI doesn't count.

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a "Genre" is a name for a collection of sounds that produces a similiar body of work, if the sounds chosen violates the apparent rules, vibe or understanding of the current remaining bodies of work that define that genre, such work will be found to be out of bounds or to be considered a different genre altogether or (rarely) a new genre.

any chord maybe used in any genre, as long as it produces a work, consistent with that genre, it is the body of the work as a whole that is judged not the chords alone. As a cottage and a castle can both be built with sand as an ingredient, it is not the particular construction materials, that make the abode, as much as the craft and style of the finished work.

 

I fought the law and the law won,
I fought the law and the law won!

 

The way genres are created is pretty much self-evident. A few people, with a lot of effort, start producing new things that haven't existed before, and with similar productions, they introduce that type of music to the world. People who love these products start making similar products and imitate those emerged genres.
Now why is there so much focus on chord progressions?
New musical genres operate on different rules. If someone wants to find the rules of different genres and use these rules to produce the music they want, they have to look for other elements of music. Finding a few chords put together and imitating them does not lead to naming the productions into different genres. Many books have been written on these topics, but there are practically no similarities between the productions with found chord progressions and the main productions that founded musical genres.
Of course, I repeat, this is my opinion and I don't want to generalize it.

 

I don't know if this post belongs in this thread or not. If not, dear moderator, please delete it.

Some musical genres, and there are quite a few of them, are not based on chords. These genres work on the basis of a specific melody on top and an underlayer bass. This bass pattern usually doesn't change much, and the melody changes, and by varying the different parts of the song, the song moves forward. The middle parts are filled with sounds so that they don't remain empty, but these sounds don't play the role of chords. In other words, chords are not the driving force in these genres.
There may be many structures used in different genres of music, but many of these genres have different rules and different influencing factors.