chord changes

noun

A chord progression.

Meanings

nounchord changes pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyplural of chord change.
  2. pluralplural onlymore specificallyA chord progression.

    He arrived at my flat one sunny spring afternoon and I played him what I had, humming the vocal melody over the chord changes I’d already written.

    2014, Gary Wright, “There Goes the Sun”, in Dream Weaver, Jeremy P. Tarcher, →ISBN

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