Diatonic calling the conscious lexicon, over.

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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 :-)
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Mistake: The last sentence wasn't with reference to 6th chords but Augmenteds :oops:

Also the s2 and particularly s4 is more in the sense of "I hope we meet again" or similar.
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I thought you were talking about Jump By Van Halen.

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merlyn wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:25 pm I thought you were talking about Jump By Van Halen.

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not diatonically but otherwise no doubt I'd prefer being jumped by Nately's whore :idea:
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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.
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D-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.
here's another vacuum cleaner that's rich in irritating consonants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMipdEdCsYo
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