Radiohead - Creep
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange answerers and questioners link it as a well-known example of a chord progression with a major-to-minor substitution (the I - III - IV - iv pattern).
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2015 to 2019.
What it is
The official music video for Radiohead's 1992 single "Creep" from the album Pablo Honey, directed by Brett Turnbull. It is a standard rock song presented as a performance and promo clip.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Creep (Radiohead song).
What people said
Recommends Нет войне · 2018-05 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How to create harmonic dissonance/tension?”
A few different ideas for creating tension/dissonance: Mathematical dissonance - although it's somewhat subjective, scientists over the years have concluded that dissonance is something that can be measured [LINK] . So you could be aware of this 'measurable' perspective when you compose. As Dom has pointed out, you don't always have to go outside of a scale to do this - the leading note is there in the major scale partly because it allows you to create an interesting dissonance. Defying expectations - no-one can give you a formula for this, because once there's a formula, it's not unexpected any more! But a chord progression that goes in an unexpected direction will create uncertainty. Follo
Cites Level River St · 2015-08 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Theory behind the change from a major chord to the same in minor”
This progression immediately reminds me of Creep by Radiohead [this video] , though it is in C major, not F major. While there is no natural key containing F major and A major, these two chords together are very common in most genres, but especially in rock, which loves minor to major substitutions. D minor is the relative minor of F major, and while the key of D minor natural does not contain an A major, the key of D minor harmonic does. So we have: F major F Bb C D minor Dm Gm Am-->Amaj In the minor key, this substitution v-->V is extremely common in virtually all genres. Rock will also substitute iv-->IV , and occasionally i-->I (though the last one will definitely jar the key from minor to ma
Cites Phoenix · 2019-08 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Neo-Riemannian Theory, The Minor Plagal Cadence, and Chromatic Voice Leading”
In my reading, a criticism that I have heard leveled against Neo-Riemannian theory is that it does not explain the smooth chromatic voice-leading possible in the iv - I instance of the plagal cadence, often played IV - iv - I . This reminded me the famous/infamous " Creep [this video] " progression, I - III - IV - iv . Imo, there is a interesting duality in the validity of analysis from a functional perspective, but also from a inter-relational (with respect to chords) perspective. One could analyze it at the movement from tonic function chords, I and III (debatable), to subdominant function chords, IV and iv , and back again. Conversely, from the perspective of chord proximity, each chord maximu