Empirically, I know that a song that does "I - IV - I - IV - I - IV..." will not sound like "V - I - V - I - V - I..." even if the first chord I heard when I turned on the radio was the IV.
How can this be explained?
Risk of I - IV sounding like V - I
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- KVRist
- 427 posts since 24 Sep, 2009
Hello forum.
Empirically, I know that a song that does "I - IV - I - IV - I - IV..." will not sound like "V - I - V - I - V - I..." even if the first chord I heard when I turned on the radio was the IV.
How can this be explained?
Empirically, I know that a song that does "I - IV - I - IV - I - IV..." will not sound like "V - I - V - I - V - I..." even if the first chord I heard when I turned on the radio was the IV.
How can this be explained?
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- KVRist
- 109 posts since 15 Jul, 2010
For pop music, it can't and to be honest radio music isn't the best to analyse academically. For other music, some artists use different chord voicings and melodic line to better establish tonality and allow resolution.halfstep wrote:How can this be explained?
