Pop Lab

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This tool shows how a bunch of pop songs are built from the same chord progressions. Play around with it to help build intuition on how to play pop songs by ear!

  1. Pick a chord progression (the emotional foundation)
  2. Pick a melody (a real song snippet that uses that progression)
  3. Hit
  4. Explore the tool and mess around with the different buttons to see how it affects the audio

Or just hit Play Random Song to jump in.

Select a progression to see piano roll