Music theory website?

February 5, 2021 4:03 PM

I’m looking for a website that listed several chord progressions. One of the progressions they listed was a minor- and seventh-heavy progression they described as sounding “royal”, and the blurb started “doesn’t this make you feel like you’re coming into a castle?” The other blurb I remember from it is the I-V-vi-IV being “the axis of awesome”, which looks like a pretty common term. Does anyone else remember this?
posted by pxe2000 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: Not vouching for it, but this seems to have some of what you mentioned.
posted by adekllny at 6:17 PM on February 5, 2021

Maybe you're thinking of two videos?

a thing about chords! by Louie Zong mentions a "royal" sounding progression.

A band called "Axis of Awesome" recorded a song about that second common progression called Four Chords.
posted by arcolz at 6:43 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]

for back to basics: Wikipedia Chord Progression, and the See Also section has some interesting stuff, not with all the adjectives but the basses are mostly covered...
posted by ovvl at 7:05 PM on February 5, 2021

It's not the specific site you are asking about, but hook theory is a pretty great rabbit hole to fall down. It has a large database of pop song chord progressions.
posted by umbú at 7:39 AM on February 8, 2021