I vi IV V

b-but user, when will my tension be released?

Isn't this just I I I iii?

Let's assume we can work in the key of C to make things easy
>I I I iii
C major - C major - C major - E minor

>vii vii vii ii
B diminished - B diminished - B diminished - D minor

Take that up one semitone it would be C diminished and Eb minor so no, nothing alike

I meant to write:
i-i -iii

in the key of b minor this would be:
b minor - b minor - b minor - d minor

Does vii in a major key automatically mean diminished? I know the diminished usually leads back to the I but does vii always refer to that instead of just minor? because there is a seperate symbol for diminished

BASED

You meant to write i - i - III because the third in minor is a major chord

Absolutely keked hard

No, because a vii vii vii ii is all minor chords, so to make an equivalent in a minor key, the chords still have to be all minor, so it would be i i i iii because it has to be b minor and d minor, not b minor and d major

It makes more sense to write that in a major key, why would you modulate in a minor key when you can stay in the boundaries of a major key?

I suppose, but if the song only contains two chords, both of which are minor, is it really in a major key?

Yes

Why?

If a song has minor chords but all those notes fit with the a major ley, it's in a major key.
I - vi - ii - V is half minor chords, it's in a major key however, so it's major.

But what if the song is only minor chords like Why would that be written in a major key?

Because the chords derive from a major key

Alright, what would be an example of a minor chord progression?:

i - VII - VI - v
Some major some minor, minor key however

You ok buddy? It's been like 8 minutes and you haven't replied yet.

I think I get it now

Ok in short
>Major key
C D E F G A B C
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 (8 hence the term octave)
1-3-5 makes a chord
I C E G is C major, C is the root
ii D F A is D minor
iii E G B is E minor
IV F A C is F major
V G B D is G major
vi A C E is A minor
vii* B D F is B diminished

C minor key is
C D Eb F G Ab Bb C
C Eb G is C minor
D F Ab is D diminished
Eb G Bb is Eb major etc

Also relatively C major is the same as A minor as all the notes are the same
The starting note is different however so if you wanted to write C major as I - ii - iii - IV as A minor III - iv - v -VI, nobody could fault you, it just however makes more sense to write it in C

Are the vii chords diminished or minor? I can't tell if you're notating them as minor or were too lazy to type "dim"