Sentence examples for sequences of chords from inspiring English sources

The cycle is marked by luminous sequences of chords, pillarlike but immaterial.

Mr. Garzone pitilessly strafed the music with notes (like Sonny Rollins's obsessive hummingbird actions on "B. Quick"), and the band established a key, feeling their way into some standard turnarounds: the sequences of chords that lead you back to the beginning of a song.

The producer Willie Mitchell, a student of the Schillinger method, which orders music into mechanics of rhythm and tone, must have been part of the reason these songs connected strange sequences of chords and used bridge-like material in verses; Mr. Green delivers some of the great performances in pop, especially on "Simply Beautiful".

So far, the most fruitful approach has been to present participants with sequences of chords and compare electric brain responses to regular chord functions with those to harmonically irregular chord functions (see Figure 1A for explanation of the term "chord function").

One's first impression is of a gently evolving but inchoate sequence of chords.

Other tracks use a cycling sequence of chords as a structure for small amounts of improvisation, or written parts played in a loose, improvised manner.

Somebody fingerpicks a languorous sequence of chords that sounds a bit like a Southern-rock ballad over a subtle drum-machine beat.

In Search Of is a sequence of chords that keeps skidding off into fast swing over Idris Muhammad's restless cymbal and snare and James Cammack's elastic walking lines.

The tenor solo felt less concrete and more exploratory, especially as Mr. Turner unfurled his strange arpeggios to an improvised sequence of chords.

"Lachen Verlernt" is based on a repeated sequence of chords, as is the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, which concluded the program.

The song started with Vignoles's piano prelude - a magical sequence of chords in which Schubert transformed the music's emotional landscape with the shift of a single note, making a familiar harmony sound rich and strange.