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Continuation patterns

Choose a short chord phrase, then compare how the observed continuations differ across the full collection and individual genres. Read this like a musician asking, "in this style, where does this harmonic thought usually go next?" The source data comes from Chordonomicon, a web-scraped Ultimate Guitar chord corpus, so guitar-based popular harmony is strongly represented.

Start here: choose 3 chords, search for a familiar shape like C G Amin, then compare global corpus with a genre. The bars show which next moves are ordinary, which are style-leaning, and how strong that tendency is.

What a musician would notice

Shared grammarSee next moves that remain common across the whole collection.
Genre accentSwitch the corpus slice to hear which paths lean more strongly toward one style.
Same harmonic shapeTransposed phrases are grouped together, so C F G and F Bb C count as the same I-IV-V shape.

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Observed continuations

For fair comparison, phrases are transposed to begin on C. That means C G Amin represents the same chord shape no matter which key a song originally used. The corpus comes from the Chordonomicon dataset, built from Ultimate Guitar chord charts.