User:Rheostatik/Harmonic Progression
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A chord progression (or harmonic progression) is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal"[1] of establishing (or contradicting) a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord.
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Chord progressions are used to create movement within a piece of music, offering a shift of level or simultaneity succession essential to harmony. Music is not a static art form like sculpture; it exists within a time frame and people respond to this psychologically by their need for a start and end with a central tonality. Music creates this expectation regardless whether it is a melody line or a chord progression. Chord changes generally occur on an accented beat and by doing so creates a sense of rhythm, meter and musical form for a piece of music, while also delineating bars, phrases and sections.[2]