u/FloorPlastic8047

I told a guy I know who's passionate about classical music, that although I don't find it bad it's boring to me, as well as a factual little analysis that common practice harmony does have many things in common, and not as vast and all-encompassing as he thinks. (So, things like major/minor, V-I being everywhere and leading tones. All those being very common in that tradition).

Lastly, after telling him that my style in music is more 50s-till today, he went on to say something like "your spirit is destroyed in darkness, and you cannot see real beauty in music".

That's next-level elitism, and his need to attack like that tells more about him than me. I just laughed at his words and replied that "yeah, Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers, which is one of my top songs ever, is so dark and destructive". 😂

I think he, and like-minded people, are more vulnerable to others' opinions, and need to attack them emotionally, rather just agreeing that tastes differ and moving on.

What do you think?

I just discovered some interesting things about modulation with no borrowed chords from the diatonic modes, except locrian. Its inclusion will be clear next.

So, starting with either a C major or C minor chord, this is the list of triad chords which aren't borrowed by any diatonic mode starting on C, save for locrian which starts with a diminished triad. **(**e.g. D# minor is both in C locrian and in the list below):

Written with sharps only, for the sake of simplicity:

• C# minor
• D# minor
• E major
• F# major & minor
• G# minor
• A major
• B major

If it looks chaotic, it's not!

The tonics of the list's chords form a C# natural minor scale. I don't know the explanation of that but sure it's interesting and also handy for remembering their order.

What's more, their triad quality is just:

[min, min, maj, maj] x2 times. With F# taking both forms in the middle of the 8 chords.

I sense that you can use these, in segments at least, for writing adventurous, modulating chord progressions. What are your thoughts?