Why Modern Musicians Love The Four-Chord Loop

The four-chord loop is good, actually.
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The humble four-chord loop gets a lot of hate, but despite its negative reputation it's managed to become one of the most important parts of modern music's harmonic vocabulary, so... why? If loops are simple and lazy, why are they everywhere? Well, the short answer is that they're neither simple nor lazy: They're a whole new form of harmonic structure, one that music theory is just now starting to catch up with. So how do they work? Theorist Philip Tagg offers one possible model, and it's really cool.

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Four-Chord video: https://youtu.be/djqSL5b-pWk

Script: https://docs.google.com/docume....nt/d/1RxPwbqU43lioXY

SOURCES:
http://tagg.org/mmmsp/EverydayTonalityInfo.htm
http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/20....17/philip-taggs-ever


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