How Neo Soul Chords Get Their Color

Keyboard player surrounded by colorful Neo Soul chord symbols and contrasting music-theory notes, representing how voicing, extensions and musical context shape chord color.

A chord can feel warm, dreamy, tense, unresolved, dark, open or surprisingly delicate. Sometimes two chords that appear closely related on paper can create completely different emotional reactions when you hear them. That is part of what makes Neo Soul so attractive to keyboard players. But where does that color actually come from? It is […]

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