Warning:

I'm literally considered clinically retarded, so I'm likely wrong about every facet of reality. I've never studied music, so these are the words of an uneducated failure of humanity. Read dubiously, and with an expectation for falsity and misinformation.

Common JPOP chord progressions

Includes:

  • Prerequisite information

  • Chord substitutions

  • 4 5 3 6 - "Royal road" progression

  • 4 3 6 - Scissor progression

  • 1 7 3 6 5 1 4 3 6 2 5 1 - The JPOP progression

    Common JPOP devices

    Includes:

  • Modal mixture (b5 half diminished) (b3) (b2) (b7)

  • Parallel movement (3 b3 2 b2 1)

  • Suspended dominants

  • Rising and descending chromatic lines in major and minor chords

  • Picardy third

    Ideas on melody writing

    Includes:

  • The basics I know of melody writing

    A history of JPOP

    Includes:

  • An attempt at comedy

    JPOP Song Analysis/Whatever random articles I want to write.

    Akutagawa Yasushi