Research Article

The Harmonic Walk: An Interactive Physical Environment to Learn Tonal Melody Accompaniment

Table 1

The table summarizes the most used root progressions in tonal harmony [27]. Note that the vii-degree chord is not represented in root position, but in its first inversion, as it appears most of the times.

From Often to Sometimes to Less often to

I IV or V vi ii or iii
ii V IV or vi I or iii
iii vi IV I, ii, or V
IV V I or ii iii or vi
V I IV or vi ii or iii
vi ii or V iii or IV I
vii6 I or iii