Why Some Neo Soul Progressions Feel Too Busy

Warm studio scene with a musical timeline showing chords separated by deliberate spaces, illustrating that not every gap in a Neo Soul progression needs to be filled.

Neo Soul gives you a huge number of harmonic possibilities. Extended chords. Passing chords. Borrowed harmony. Chromatic movement. Altered dominants. Inner-voice movement. Bass substitutions. Grace notes. Rhythmic fills. That freedom is one of the reasons the style is so interesting. It can also create a problem. A progression can contain so many good ideas that […]

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