Watch me compose a functional chord progression.
I took the music out that was around 9 minutes in.
Major chart
Minor chart
Article on Diatonic Harmony https://www.artofcomposing.com/08-diatonic-harmony
Listen to the piece from the video, Pancho Villas Rides:
Do you always have to go back to tonic Chord from V. What about leaving unresolved and returning to Tonic from a IV or a II. Would that not be acceptable practice?
Both of those would be perfectly acceptable. You just have to understand the context, and how the harmonic choices effect the tension and release in the music.
Hey! Could you draw up this sort of chart for Lydian or other modal chord harmonizations?
Hi Nathan,
Modes work in a slightly different way than functional harmony, so it wouldn’t exactly work the same.
So these charts cannot be used with different modes?
These charts cover functional harmony for major and harmonic minor scales. The chords don’t really work the same in other modes. You may have some interesting results trying though.