While trying to get a handle on the qualities of chords in my other
project I noticed some verbose descriptions on a tutorial page. They
were general in nature like tense, happy, anxious etc. Connecting
with more personal impressions I came up with the following list,
provisionally. I'd be curious how others who have tried this have
called the chord moods for themselves:
Major = Home At Last
Minor = Good-Bye
Diminished = Are You Sure?
Sust. = Should We Meet Again
Aug. = Claxon, TrainHorn: "jump!"
5 = Ride
6 = Where Are We? (not easy this one)
Dom 7 = Relax, I Told You so
Side-Bar: I live on the coast and once I enter my long and straight driveway there are no lights between us and the sea. On a clear night the stars above the horizon sometimes reflect in the calm water but the exclusive nature of their display in what seems otherwise a total blackout is their dominant attribute. Once, arriving 'home' tired from a long trip even the house lights were mostly all off, so you can imagine a pitch black sky with stars sparkling and no other lights displayed in the moonless stillness, except... Being winter I had reflective road markers along the sides and the bright car light reflections in these were almost indistinguishable from the stars above. I said to my wife "There's our path home among the stars". It felt great to be home from a thousand miles away, THAT's what the richer major chords tell me. For a 6th I remembered "Jump!" in the beginning of Catch-22 when Nately's whore leaps to knife him
Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
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Re: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
Mistake: The last sentence wasn't with reference to 6th chords but Augmenteds
Also the s2 and particularly s4 is more in the sense of "I hope we meet again" or similar.
Also the s2 and particularly s4 is more in the sense of "I hope we meet again" or similar.
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Re: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
not diatonically but otherwise no doubt I'd prefer being jumped by Nately's whore
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Re: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
What is it in the resolving chord of a progression that makes us feel good?
So far I've seen references to two things: lower frequencies sound better
and dissonance sounds worse, these may refer to static snapshot sounds
but the effect is accentuated when a trend is perceived as in intervals.
pleasant low frequencies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr73nr7PT0
irritating vacuum cleaners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFk9JAvVxcA
there's a lot more to it but for starters they do.
So far I've seen references to two things: lower frequencies sound better
and dissonance sounds worse, these may refer to static snapshot sounds
but the effect is accentuated when a trend is perceived as in intervals.
pleasant low frequencies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr73nr7PT0
irritating vacuum cleaners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFk9JAvVxcA
there's a lot more to it but for starters they do.
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Re: Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.
here's another vacuum cleaner that's rich in irritating consonantsD-Tuned wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:47 pm What is it in the resolving chord of a progression that makes us feel good?
So far I've seen references to two things: lower frequencies sound better
and dissonance sounds worse, these may refer to static snapshot sounds
but the effect is accentuated when a trend is perceived as in intervals.
pleasant low frequencies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr73nr7PT0
irritating vacuum cleaners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFk9JAvVxcA
there's a lot more to it but for starters they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMipdEdCsYo