Neo soul chords
Jun 22, 2021
4 minutes
By Dave Clews
Neo soul’ is a label that has come to define the smooth, slick sound ‘Neo of modern R&B, from the '90s noodlings of Maxwell and D’Angelo to current exponents like Cory Henry, Taylor McFerrin or Robert Glasper. This is a versatile genre, the edges of which are easily blurred, allowing it to be readily fused with the likes of hip-hop, jazz, electronica, funk, house, drum ’n’ bass – you name it.
The main keyboard instrument of the neo soul sound is the electric piano, and there’s a very distinctive sound to the chords that make up the kind of part that typically represents the genre. The chords are fat-sounding, rich and complex, to
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