1,666 Royalty-Free Audio Tracks for "Power Chords"

Pythagorean major chord on C.

Street pop tunez delivers an amped bass on the electric side for your library. Works in all daws.

Bergamesca variant, MS. Lute Book, c. 1600.

Debussy Pelleas et Melisande prelude opening.

ii7-subV7-IM7-I6 progression. Chord quality substitution.

Diminished chord in first inversion in Bach's WTC I, Prelude in G Major.

viio7 as dominant substitute.

♯IIo7 as dominant substitute.

Four measure ii-V-I progression in C with Coltrane substitution.

Bohlen-Pierce chord: 0,1,2 (semitones), the most dissonant chord. Currently at 0, 169.75, and 310.88 cents. Title refers to number of semitones (unison=0).

Triad in Just Bohlen-Pierce tuning (0 6 10 semitones). Title refers to harmonics (fundamental=1,3,9,etc.).

Just minor chord on C: 10:12:15.

Septimal minor triad on C (C,E7b,G or 6:7:9)

C major triad, played by me

0 7 10 was judged most consonant by the untrained subjects. Title refers to number of semitones (unison=0).

Extended dominant relationship in Schubert's German Dance, D. 643, opening.

Just some random, bad and sloppy shredding type of playing. Lots of fast notes and some heavy power chords. Call it the lead guitar player having a bad day.

Dream Chord on G, tuned 12:16:17:18. MIDI pitch bend appears to match intervals.

Motherchord (Mutterakkord), pyramidal (symetrical) chord. A G# E C# B F# C♮ F♮ G Bb D Eb = 0 e 7 4 2 9 3 8 t 1 5 6.

Alpha scale harmonic seventh chord on C. MIDI pitch bend matches intervals.

La Monte Young - Magic opening chord: E♭, E, F, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, E, F, G, A, B♭ = 2:3:7:9:21:63:567:189:567. The opening chord (left), E, F, A, B♭, D, E, G, and A, and the magic chord (right), E♭, B♭, C, E♭, F, B♭.

Mother chordMutterakkord

vi7 as tonic substitute. Created by Hyacinth (talk) 16:17, 14 July 2010 using Sibelius 5.

Bad guy/"Villian" motif/riff.

5:7:9 is the first inversion of the major triad. Title refers to harmonics (fundamental=1:3:9:etc.).

French sixth chord in Schubert's D.795, No. 5, "Am Feierabend" ("The Hour of Rest").

A power chord recorded with an ibanez, processed through guitar rig and some other guitar amps, and time-streched with paulstretch. Two recordings used for stereo. I also added some reverse reverb.

Bob Dylan's "Lay, Lady, Lay" verse.

The "Schwencke measure" added to J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Major BWV 846

Primary forms of the just tone row from Ben Johnston's String Quartet No. 7, mov. 2. Pitch bend appears to match intervals.

Excerpt from Bach's Mass in B minor

Harmonic Chord 3:5:7:9. Traditional notation: G E B♭ D. Title refers to harmonics (fundamental=1:3:9:etc.).

Just hitting the same chord over and over again but ending up in an almost march like beat. Probably good for an intro or breakdown.

Scriabin, Sonata Op.5 Op.53. Meas.263-264

Truck driver's gear change, modulation up a whole step, in "Because the Night".

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande motif, at Mélisande's entrance and later when Golaud asks if she ever loved Pelléas, features, in addition to the already usual ninth, a thirteenth inverted to a "warm" close-position fourth.

Consonant harmonies based on the odd harmonic overtones 3/5/7/9.

Audio sample which exemplifies Andalusian cadences, as shown in the article (see the picture below the Structure section). Recorded using an emulated acoustic Steinway piano through the Sound Font 2 technology, on August 9th, 2007 and released into public domain in the same day.

Chord rewrite rules II: use of chromatic passing chords.

Created by Hyacinth (talk) 19:12, 18 January 2011 using Sibelius 5.

reale Quintfallsequenz

tonale Quintfallsequenz mit Dreiklängen und Sextakkorden im Wechsel

Harmonic progression from a Mozart piano sonata--sound file. Piano Sonata in G, K. 283, third movement, starting measure 247. Digital recording by Opus33 using Wavesurfer software. Transcription into chords by Opus33, loosely following Piston and DeVoto, Harmony. This music is in the public domain. The recording is not copyrighted, and it is hereby released by its creator (known in this context by the pseudonym Opus33) into the public domain. The following tag, though it is not quite accurate, is included in order to authorize this file according to the Wikipedia rules:

Chord rewrite rules I: replacement or substitution of a chord by its dominant or subdominant.

Augmented chord progression: I+ IV. Palmer, H. R. (1876). Palmer's Theory of Music, p.91-2. J. Church. [ISBN unspecified]

Augmented chord progression: I+#6 IV. Palmer, H. R. (1876). Palmer's Theory of Music, p.91-2. J. Church. [ISBN unspecified]

iv IV I V chord progression.

Montgomery-Ward bridge in C (I7-IV7-ii7-V7). Created by Hyacinth (talk) 06:58, 11 June 2010 using Sibelius 5.

Augmented chord progression: I+ IV64. Palmer, H. R. (1876). Palmer's Theory of Music, p.91-2. J. Church. [ISBN unspecified]

Chord progression by descending thirds from mediant to supertonic resolving to dominant.