As I’m first getting the hang of this mod thing, this weeks theme was borrowed an old reddit songaweek created by reddit user 500MillionYears.

This week’s theme is the descending chord progression i-VII-VI-V, otherwise known as the Adalusian Cadence, which in itself is a bit of a misnomer as it’s usually used as an ostinato rather than a cadence. The Andalusian Cadence comes from flamenco music. In the key of A minor, the chords are

Am - G - F - E7

An historic pop music example is Runaway - Del Shannon - (as an aside, this song has a pretty cool pre-synth keyboard part, played on a Musitron).

Some other examples:

Like a Hurricane - Neil Young

All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan

Happy Together - The Turtles

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

Your theme this week is i-VII-VI-V

Songs posted in this thread should be:

• Original content (samples and such are ok)

• Uses the weekly theme as inspiration… or not!

• Submitted by Wednesday before bedtime

• Written entirely during this week, between July 20th and July 26th, 2022

Post template

[Song Name] (linkto.the.song) (Genre) [Themed|Not Themed]

This is where you can write a description of your song. You can talk about

how you wrote it, where your inspiration came from, and anything else

you’d like to say. Remember to sort by ‘New’ so that you can see new song submissions.

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