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    Harmonic function

    May 18, 2021 4 minutes
    By Dave Clews

    Over the course of his 25-year career, Dave has engineered, programed and played keyboards for numerous artists including George Michael and Tina Turner

    Harmonic function… what’s that? Well, it’s not the big party after a choral performance! Instead, it’s the term used to describe the purpose of particular chords – the relationship that they have to the tonal centre of a piece, and why they work in a particular progression.

    Music taps into emotions, and harmonic function is the process by which, either by luck or by design, a string of chords combine to make the listener feel something. The basic theory of harmonic function has its roots mainly in Western tonal classical music, when

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