Xnivx Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 (edited) Hello everyone. I have found out that Chinese pop song arrangements have these "transition chords" mostly in the last chorus which is the climax part. I have no idea how did they apply it and which theory does it related to. Here are two examples: 1. 有一種悲傷 A Kind of Sorrow This song is originally in the key of G major. In the chorus at 1:04, the chord progression is: Cmaj7 - Cdim7 - Bmin7 - Emin7 At 2:32, the song is transposed up to Ab major, as a climax and the chords are basically (Db - Eb - Cm - Fm) At 2:54, however, the chords are not directly transposed. The bass line goes like: Db - Eb F G Ab - C - F The second bar isn't just a bass line, but the whole orchestra changes which is a complete chord change. Does anyone have any idea what they are? 2. 说谎 Right after 2:22, there are 3 different chords with 3 bass notes played to match the lyrics, which is something similar to the 1st example. There are still a lot of songs which use this technique but I could not think of them at the moment. Please help me to figure out what is this all about. Thank you! Edited January 7, 2019 by Xnivx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestrowick Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Ab to Gb/Ab (or you could say Ab9sus4 at that 2:54 mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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