#Chord Progression

A chord progression is the sacred parade of chords assembled to sway emotions with mechanical precision. Composers worship this sequence like scripture, finding comfort in reusing the same progressions ad nauseam. Listeners, despite being able to predict 95% of a song before it starts, cling to that predictability as the secret sauce of a hit. Though music theory proclaims infinite combinations, in practice it’s just a handful of déjà vu patterns in different costumes. And songwriters forever tweak minor variations, hunting for the illusion of novelty.