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Posts Tagged ‘chord progressions’

The Twelve-Bar Blues: A Living Form

By Richard Kahn | September 1, 2026 | 0
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The blues is a scale, a style, a form, and a philosophy. As a form, the twelve-bar blues is one of the most durable structures in the history of music: twelve…

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Tonic, Dominant, Subdominant: The Three Primary Colors of Harmony

By Richard Kahn | August 14, 2026
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The primary chords of any key — tonic, dominant, and subdominant — are the three foundational harmonies from which all Western tonal music is built.

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