This is just me fiddling around with some chords in the style of 'Eurodancer' by DJ Mangoo. Can any give any deeper insight into why G Bb F C is so 'Dance'y sounding?
http://moose.linux-coders.org/piano.mp3
What I'm trying to ask is the theory behind these chord changes?
what makes this chord progression 'dance'y?
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Count_fuzzball Count_fuzzball https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=182471
- KVRian
- 765 posts since 9 Jun, 2008 from Ireland
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- KVRian
- 1084 posts since 12 Sep, 2008 from Your basement
Not sure if the question can be answered from a functionality persective, but I can say that this progression fits the conventionalities of dance/electro/techno that are pretty well established.Count_fuzzball wrote:This is just me fiddling around with some chords in the style of 'Eurodancer' by DJ Mangoo. Can any give any deeper insight into why G Bb F C is so 'Dance'y sounding?
http://moose.linux-coders.org/piano.mp3
What I'm trying to ask is the theory behind these chord changes?
I remember hearing similar progressions in the late 80s/early 90s when you'd hear that hammond organ providing the bass and the roland house piano pounding out the progression (like you've got) in block chords.
This also makes a nice "loopable" phrase too. You have a nice four-bar phrase that can easily serve as a phrase "unit" for creating larger phrases by stacking them like blocks.
The C chord leads nicely back to G, thus rounding it off to start again.
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- KVRist
- 179 posts since 11 Feb, 2008
It's really the RHYTHM of a song that makes it dancy, not the chord progression.Count_fuzzball wrote:This is just me fiddling around with some chords in the style of 'Eurodancer' by DJ Mangoo. Can any give any deeper insight into why G Bb F C is so 'Dance'y sounding?
http://moose.linux-coders.org/piano.mp3
What I'm trying to ask is the theory behind these chord changes?
However, as Ogg points out, when you use a progression that's already been well-used in dance music, it will also be percieved as being "dancy" just by it being similar to other music in that style.
Any progression can be used in any style music (for the most part) - it's how you "dress it up" with other musical elements that give it certain qualities.
Steve
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
That C is a fourth above that G.Count_fuzzball wrote:This is just me fiddling around with some chords in the style of 'Eurodancer' by DJ Mangoo. Can any give any deeper insight into why G Bb F C is so 'Dance'y sounding?
What I'm trying to ask is the theory behind these chord changes?
That F is a fourth above that C.
A fourth above that gives your Bb.
Now, the order of those chords gives G to Bb as a beginning. That's a minor third interval; it's, for lack of a better word, 'bluesy'. Then, a 'triple plagal' progression, falling fourths, moving back to your G.
(a 'plagal' cadence is aka the 'amen' cadence; hence my remark, a sort of gospel convention at work. This is a common set of changes in gospel, and rock, R&B music etc.)