Church of the One · one chord is a progression if you mean it
↳ reharmPocket in silk · the same two chords wearing 9s — James Brown to Prince in one upgrade
Inside moves to graft onIN·15 Blue Subdominanteven the one-chord vamp takes a 4⁷ stab — the blue subdominant as punctuationIN·31 Backdoor Dominantthe backdoor b7⁷ as a two-bar detour that lands back on the OneIN·36 Tritone Substitutiontritone-sub stabs over the vamp — outside for a beat, home on the OneWays outOUT·05 Breakdown Resetcut the band, hold the drums, restart the vamp anywhere — the reset IS the modulationOUT·32 Hard Cuthard cut the whole groove up a minor third for the last section
Target notes, chord by chordThe b7 and 9 as staccato stabs; the root saved for the One. Funk melody is percussion with pitch — WHERE you hit matters more than what.How the scale is playedDorian or minor pentatonic in 16th-note bursts, most of them muted ghosts. Two real notes per bar, perfectly placed, beat twenty sloppy ones.Genre theoryOne chord IS the progression: the harmony lives in the extensions (9, 11, 13) the riff implies. Chucks are notes — the ✕ has a rhythm-pitch all its own.