Chromatic Notes Are Goofy In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
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Chromatic Notes Are Goofy In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (YouTube)
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I noticed all the chords in the song at <a href="https://youtu.be/1Pbe9oRXdyM?t=5m31s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/1Pbe9oRXdyM?t=5m31s</a> are reusing the same note twice. So each chord effectively only uses 2 notes on the scale. Is there a name for these types of chords? Is there anything interesting to mention about their affects on a song?
Those chords specifically, containing only the root and the 5th, are called 'Power Chords'. Low power chords like that can sound super beefy, and basically every rock song ever performed makes use of them because of this. Since they have no 3rd, they have a sort of ambiguous quality about them being neither explicitly major or minor (although usually the rest of the music will imply that they're either major or minor, as is the case in the Rogueport example you timestamped).
Great video! :D