In вЂњShape of You,вЂќ Ed Sheeran uses a i вЂ“ iv вЂ“ bVI вЂ“ bVII progressionвЂ¦ and has red hair. + Read more on Flypaper: вЂњHow to Add Bittersweet Emotion to Your Chords with 7thsвЂќ Exhibit D: No major V chords = no leading tones = no functional cadences = no essential functions. Frank Ocean and Migos), started with that same bVI вЂ“ v вЂ“ i progression, later using an even less functional iv вЂ“ v вЂ“ bVI progression. YouвЂ™ll never believe this, but the next song, Calvin HarrisвЂ™s вЂњSlideвЂќ (feat. Subscribe for unlimited access! Exhibit C:

+ Learn production, composition, songwriting, theory, arranging, mixing, and more - whenever you want and wherever you are. What if youвЂ™d never seen a duck before?В YouвЂ™d see the rabbit. Like, what if youвЂ™d never heard a song in natural minor before but those Phrygian bunnies started hopping all around your yard, like, every morning? How is this possible in music? Because the less tonal information you have, the harder it is to be sure where the tonal center is, so your brain starts filling in the gaps with tonal information from your musical preferences and culture. ItвЂ™s kind of like the famous rabbit-duckВ illusion where yourВ brain is capable of seeing both a rabbit and a duck in the same image. His other song on all the lists, вЂњHumble,вЂќ uses the same dang motif, but without the chords, so itвЂ™s just the chord roots,В в™ 6, 5, and 1.В These вЂњ5-1вЂќ scale notes are as close as we get to V вЂ“ IВ functioning chords.В Incidentally, this piano riff can also be heard in a Phrygian tonality as в™2, 1, 4.

Next came Kendrick LamarвЂ™s вЂњLoyalty,вЂќ which has a natural minor chord progression of в™VI вЂ“ v вЂ“ i -В not classically functional. ThatвЂ™s because these are modal chords, and according to Music Theory 101, modal chords donвЂ™t вЂњfunction,вЂќ per se, they meander - like a lostВ monk chanting in the woods. Exhibit A:ДrakeвЂ™s song вЂњPassionfruitвЂќ starts out with some syncopated arpeggios - none of which are even triads, so thereвЂ™s your first functional harmony torpedo right there - and even if you cheat and label them by their implied triads, i вЂ“ iv вЂ“ v chords, itвЂ™s still not functioning tonally. Pop music has officially entered the age of вЂњpost-functional.вЂќ Or something. Like I said, I was surfing through Google search results for вЂњsummertime hits of 2017вЂі and the like, cross-referencing them for duplicates, and literally, the first six songs I found had none - not even a whiff of any of these textbook-essential functions. HereвЂ™s Elvis singing вЂњAll Shook UpвЂќ - just a whole bunch of one(I) chords, then bam, function: IV вЂ“ V вЂ“ I. This chord change, and its variants, is supposed to be the most common and вЂњcorrectвЂќ thing that happens in music. In the key of C major, thatвЂ™d be a Dm or F, then a G, then a C chord, respectively. You guys, this is getting ridiculous - where did all the functional harmony go? IвЂ™m talking about the Music Theory 101, first-day-of-class stuff that we used to see everywhere: dominants,В pre-dominants, tonics, authentic cadences - in other words, functions.Д«asically, the three essential functions in tonal harmony are the Predominant, most often a two(ii) or four(IV) chord then the Dominant, almost always a five(V) chord and then the Tonic, always the one chord(I). So there I was, doing research on topics such as вЂњsummer 2017 songwriting trends,вЂќ when it hit me. Subscribe now to start learningВ on the вЂ™Fly. +В Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals withВ creative online courses.В Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it.

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