In this way, conveying emotion via music is somewhat abstract, fluid, and susceptible to a lot of interpretation.
And every listener in the world brings different spectrums and thresholds of emotion into their experience of music. Together with our partner Ethan Hein, we tried to show some of the subtleties and nuances of chords and harmony, and how they’re actually used in modern music in a very practical sense.īut at the behest of some of our students (and to scratch our own nerdy itch), we were curious how much farther we could take this, so we asked our Flypaper writer staff and Soundfly Mentor community to share some of their own go-to chords, progressions, and harmonic devices for achieving certain emotional outcomes in their writing.Ĭomposing is never as black and white as minor tonality = sad, major tonality = happy - as Ethan’s great piece, “Can Descending Chords Ever Sound Happy?” posits and proves with aplomb. That’s partly why our two harmonic theory courses, Unlocking the Emotional Power of Chordsand The Creative Power of Advanced Harmony , take a unique approach to the content, rather than a classical “theory-heavy” approach. We here at Soundfly believe that there’s no single right way to compose, produce, orchestrate, write, or perform music - and that it’s often the innovators who do things according to their own rules that truly seem to transmit the most powerful emotional experiences through their music.
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