Home - Resonance | Chord Progression MIDI Remake

Remaking the chord progression from the 2014 song "Resonance" by Home can be a great way to understand how the music you love is made. Here’s how you can build the "Resonance" chord progression yourself, exploring it directly here in the browser via our embedded DAW below. Listen to the original, then follow the recipe step by step.

Original Audio

Six seventh chords over four bars, looped through the whole song. Home’s “Resonance” runs a progression of lush minor and major sevenths in F minor, each one stabbed on a rolling dotted-eighth pattern that tumbles across the beat at 87 BPM. The voicing: root-position sevenths stacked close in one register, so the chords share notes and melt into each other instead of leaping around. That mix of warm, nostalgic harmony and a hard, syncopated pulse helped make it a synthwave staple, and never leaving these four bars is exactly what makes it hypnotic.

Our Remake of The Chord Progression

This audio clip is how close we've matched the original notes and MIDI chord progression from the song "Resonance" by Home.

Challenge Yourself

Can you recreate the notes and rhythm by ear? Try it now in this interactive challenge where you'll enter notes into a real in-browser DAW. Hit "Start Challenge", and follow the steps that appear.

Can't figure it out? Scroll down for the MIDI Recipe and our DAW recreation.

MIDI Notes Recipe

The spec

• Key: F minor
• Tempo: 87 BPM
• Time signature: 4/4
• Feel: Rolling dotted-eighth chord stab.
• Loop: 4 bars, six seventh chords, repeated throughout.
• Voicing: Mostly closed, root-position, all in one register (F3–C5).

What makes it work

• Dotted-eighth stab: a hit every 3 sixteenths, rolling across the grid. One 8th tucks in per 2 bars, dropping the middle chord on beat 3.
• All sevenths: no plain triads. m7 and maj7 colors give the lush wash. The Ab chord adds a 9th.
• One register: every chord root-position, mostly closed voicings with few exceptions, F3 to C5. Many shared tones, no leaping.

The progression

4-bar loop. Each chord lands on the beat shown, then re-stabs on the rhythm below until the next.

The rhythm

Stab every 3 sixteenths, with one occasional 8th per two bars. 2-bar pattern, repeats. Bars 3–4 reuse it.

Bar 1

Bar 2

The voicing

5 chord tones, closed, root-position. Top note sometimes doubles the bottom, sometimes deviates upward for variety and to create a top melodic line. All in the F3–C5 window. The exact stacks (bottom to top):

• Fm7: F3 Ab3 C4 Eb4 Ab4
• Abmaj7 (add9): Ab3 C4 Eb4 G4 Bb4
• Cm7: C4 Eb4 G4 Bb4 C5
• Fm7: F3 Ab3 C4 Eb4 Eb5
• Bbm7: Bb3 Db4 F4 Ab4 Bb4
• Abmaj7 (add9): Ab3 C4 Eb4 G4 Ab4

(Piano roll may read flats as sharps: Ab=G#, Bb=A#, Db=C#, Eb=D#.)

Build it

In the player below:

1. Clear the current notes (erase button, bottom-left).
2. Own DAW? Set 87 BPM, 4/4. (The player is already set.)
3. Stab pattern first, on one chord: hit every 3 sixteenths (bar 1 = 1, “a” of 1, “+” of 2, 3, “a” of 3, “+” of 4), EXCEPT make the 3rd stab of each two bars an eighth.
4. Lay the loop: Fm7 beat 1, Abmaj7 beat 3, Cm7 the “a” of 4. Then Fm7, Bbm7, Abmaj7 across bars 3–4.
5. Voice close: root-position, one register, top sometimes a doubling of the bottom, sometimes a different note.
6. Loop it: four bars, all the way through.

Make it yours

• Keep the rhythm, change the chords: keep the repeating rythmic stab, run your own sevenths through it.
• Stay in sevenths: m7 or maj7 on every chord. Triads lose the nostalgia.
• Move only the top voice: walk the top note for a counter-melody for free.
• Build the sound: the synth tone is on Syntorial → Resonance Chords Preset Recipe.

DAW Recreation

Check out the notes yourself below in this embedded DAW. Play it, edit it, make it your own!

Explore More

• “Resonance” by HOME: the track that introduced vaporwave to the mainstream (Know Your Meme)
• Resonance by HOME: chords, melody, and theory analysis (Hooktheory)
• Home – Resonance, piano cover (YouTube)
• 7 Common Synthwave Chord Progressions (eMastered)
• HOME – Resonance, piano tutorial by Sheet Music Boss (YouTube)