What Are The Most Common Chord Intervals For Intros And Outros.

[uncle808us]

What are the most common or not so common chord intervals for intros and outros? Song beginnings and endings.

Thank you.

Edited September 22, 2013 by uncle808us

[Rudi]

In both instances, probably the basic triad of the song key itself.

 

Exceptions are much more likely to be for intros.

[john]

That hugely depends on genre and on time period. Ie songs written 20 years ago used different dominant sequences than 50 years ago, even within genres

[john]

Just to be clear, you want not just the starting chord but also the progressions?

[uncle808us]

Just the intervals like : Intro = 1, 2, 5, 1. In the key of C that would be"C", "D", "G", "C". One chord per measure for a 4 bar intro. The same idea for the Outro . Pop songs, Blues

Rock, Modern.

[john]

Ok, you're mixing up terms, you are wanting common chord progressions, not intervals.

An interval is the difference between two pitches (harmonic interval - the difference between two pitches in a chord, melodic interval - the difference between two adjacent pitches in a melody).

What you are looking for, however, is the chord progressions, which can be expressed as in 1, 2 etc, but they are better expressed using Roman Numeral Analysis as there are differences between major progressions and the 3 minor scale progressions that RNA will capture and 1, 2, 3 will not.

Most songs intro using chords from the verse, bridge, chorus etc, not using a new section. Similarly most songs outro on chorus chords, or at least many do.

So here are a few common progressions and some of the songs that use them:

I IV I V - Brown Eyed Girl

I I I ii IV V - Like A Rolling Stone

I V vi IV - With Or Without You

Or some common 12 bar major progressions would be:

I I I I IV IV I I V V I I

I IV I I IV IV I I ii V I V

Or some 12 bar minor blues progressions would be:

i i i i iv iv i i VI V I I

i i i i iv iv i i iv V i I

Other common progressions

I VI IV V I

I VI II V I

I II VI V I

I vi ii V

I V vi IV

I hope this helps

[uncle808us]

Yes a very big help, thank you for clearing me up on the Roman numerals.

And thank you for the progressions.

This was what I was looking for.

Thank you and thanks to all who replied.

[uncle808us]

One question if you want the V chord to be a ninith or seventh is this how you would express it? V9 or V7? Thanks

[Brad Barnett]

There really isn't an answer to that because there are a number of songs that use each interval in just about every genre.  

[Rudi]

On 15/08/2015 18:07:27, Brad Barnett said:

There really isn't an answer to that because there are a number of songs that use each interval in just about every genre.  

If you check John's answer, you will find the OP question was misstated.