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Genre

EDM chord progressions

Electronic dance music with repetitive progressions

What makes it sound like this

Harmonic fingerprints.

  • Four-chord loops
  • Build-ups and drops
  • Modal progressions
  • Simple triads

Where it lives

Common keys.

The tonal centres edm keeps coming back to — usually because they sit well on the instruments the style was built on. Each key page carries its full diatonic chord set, and links its relative minor for the darker corners of the genre.

3 progressions

The changes edm runs on.

Written in roman numerals, then spelled out in the key of C. Every chord links to its own page; where the pattern has a full progression page of its own, that link is on the card.

Techno Vamp

i — i — i — i

Minimal techno progression

Go deeper

Progression pages filed under edm.

Each one is realized in all fifteen keys of its mode, with audio and the songs that use it.

Vocabulary

The chords that define the sound.

Not just which qualities edm reaches for, but those qualities built on the roots the genre actually plays in. Every chord links to its shapes, audio, and voice-leading notes.

Minor

Dark drops

Major

Uplifting sections

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Melodic elements

    Suspended 2nd

    Modern EDM sound