Harmony Cliches
Recognizable chord progressions — the harmonic clichés that define a feel. Browse loops, cadences, and turnarounds across pop, modal, historical, and experimental flavors. Each strip is the same harmonic schema rendered three ways: Roman numerals, chord symbols, and tonal function.
Each strip is a harmonic schema — a repeatable chord band of 4, 8, or 12 bars. Where Music Phrases captures a 3–5-note melodic shape, a strip captures the harmonic skeleton underneath. I·V·vi·IV is the pop axis. ii·V·I is the jazz cadence. I·♭VII is the Mixolydian shuttle that owns half of rock music.
Set Key and Octave to transpose. BPM sets tempo; Division (1 · 1/4 · 1/8 · 1/16) controls how many times each chord is re-struck per bar — from a single sustained pad to a sixteenth-note guitar comp. Rotate ◀ ▶ cycles the strip's start point so you can hear the same chords from a different position. Toggle Roman ↔ Staff ↔ Tab to read each strip three ways. Filter by category (Conventional → Modal → Historical → Experimental) or by type (Loops, Cadences, Turnarounds, Schemas, Fields).