Let’s focus on the 4+1 Guitar-major genre – Rock, Metal, Punk, Country, and Pop.
* Why is Pop using that much minor?
* Why do both Country and Pop use little Power chords
* Why is Rock using less power chords compare to punk and Metal?
I have extreme doubts about the quality of any data set/analysis that would result with power chords being only 5% of the chords used in punk…
Same with jazz having more basic triads than 7ths and other extended chords…
I’m very skeptical about metal music containing more major than minor triads
These seems fascinating (even if the underlying data has flaws), but I admit I don’t know anything about music. Might anyone be able to give a simple explanation of what each of these types of chords is?
![[OC] A Breakdown of Types of Chords Used in Each Genre](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fw88j8ix0ive1-1440x1024.png)
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Source: [Chordonomicon](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22046) dataset, which is ultimately sourced from Ultimate-Guitar
Tools: Pandas, Datawrapper
I did a longer analysis with a few other visualizations [here](https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed-chord-progressions-in). I think the biggest gap with this dataset is that most power chords are not notated as power chords on Ultimate-Guitar.
Let’s focus on the 4+1 Guitar-major genre – Rock, Metal, Punk, Country, and Pop.
* Why is Pop using that much minor?
* Why do both Country and Pop use little Power chords
* Why is Rock using less power chords compare to punk and Metal?
I have extreme doubts about the quality of any data set/analysis that would result with power chords being only 5% of the chords used in punk…
Same with jazz having more basic triads than 7ths and other extended chords…
I’m very skeptical about metal music containing more major than minor triads
These seems fascinating (even if the underlying data has flaws), but I admit I don’t know anything about music. Might anyone be able to give a simple explanation of what each of these types of chords is?
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