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Topic: Romantic chord progressions  (Read 3036 times)

Offline ravelfan07

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Romantic chord progressions
on: December 09, 2023, 02:36:03 AM
Not sure where this should go but, what are some romantic chord progressions? (I need it for a thing……)
Amateur pianist and composer(will show works soon)

Offline lelle

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Re: Romantic chord progressions
Reply #1 on: December 15, 2023, 01:46:34 PM
Increased use of mediants and daring modulations mixed in with the traditional tonic, subdominant, dominant stuff that the earlier classical composers did.

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Re: Romantic chord progressions
Reply #2 on: December 22, 2023, 02:26:07 AM
When moving to the tonic from the dominant use instead the Median of that, and then the Median of the Median.
 

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