What is your Favorite Chord Progressions?

[yamaz]

what is your favorite chord progressions to mess with? Im tired of playing I IV V ...

[aesthetics]

Check out ultimate-guitar.com, and look at chords for songs you think would sound nice as dubstep (i.e. anything by la roux imo). Take the chords figure them out on your midi-keyboard and chop that shit up
Other than that, I just jam on my keyboard/guitar till I find something I like...

Not really answering the question but I think it's solid advice

[komanderkin]

that's great advice right there by aesthetics. i don't know much about music theory, so i learn to play the songs i like and then use those chord progressions. another good way to find something different is to not start with the chords, but with a melody instead. then experiment with what goes well with it, try weird stuff too. interesting things could come out.

[narcissus]

I V vi IV is the shit

[grooki]

what is your favorite chord progressions to mess with? Im tired of playing I IV V ...

I mainly use something along these lines, but I'm learning guitar at the moment and hope to soon be making some wierd and wonderful progressions!

[yamaz]

Wow I'm surprised of the lack of responses :-p - Come on you music theorists!

[komanderkin]

well, i do have these few things bookmarked:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3803201
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... sc&start=0
http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/com ... ogression/

haven't read any of it yet though.

if you find something good inside, feel free to report here.

[s i c k b o y]

there is a book called 'money chords' i think which has pages and pages of chord progressions. Recently I just mess about in a key on guitar and then translate, sometimes add in interesting bits like different inversions and 7th or even 9th chords. and then theres always the good old sus 4 - major - sus 2 routine if you are guns and roses or bryan adams...

another thing about bryan adams, in his song summer of 69 he says that he played his guitar until his fingers bled - i dont know how he was playing guitar because surely if he was playing it properly he would have got RSI (repetative strain injury) before actually drawing blood from his fingers.

[Sharmaji]

7ths. play just sevenths and everything sounds good. bossa nova style.

[s i c k b o y]

7ths. play just sevenths and everything sounds good. bossa nova style.

do you mean just dominant 7ths? or all 7th chords
just dominant 7ths would make so bluuuuuesy beats

[frank grimes jr.]

Dubstep comes with chords now!!??

[yamaz]

Dubstep comes with chords now!!??

Tons!

[honey-d]

Circle of Fifths ftw. Learn it, know it, show it.

[mks]

Circle of Fifths ftw. Learn it, know it, show it.

Learn it going to the left. It's the way chords resolve. Cadential movement, dominant chord to tonic chord, V to I.

Trust

[s i c k b o y]

Circle of Fifths ftw. Learn it, know it, show it.

Learn it going to the left. It's the way chords resolve. Cadential movement, dominant chord to tonic chord, V to I.

Trust

What? Circle of 5ths is to help you remember how many sharps and flats are in each key.. if you go to the right you can find sharps, to the left you find flats. Not got much to do with cadences.

[mks]

Circle of Fifths ftw. Learn it, know it, show it.

Learn it going to the left. It's the way chords resolve. Cadential movement, dominant chord to tonic chord, V to I.

Trust

What? Circle of 5ths is to help you remember how many sharps and flats are in each key.. if you go to the right you can find sharps, to the left you find flats. Not got much to do with cadences.

Indeed, it is a chart to help you learn how many sharps and flats there are in every key. But if you follow the chart to the left it has everything to do with a cadence. First perhaps we should define cadence in music theory:

"A cadence is a resting of a musical phrase. Phrases may rest briefly, such as in the middle of a melody, or more permanently, such as at the end of a melody..."
"An authentic cadence requires two things:

1) The resting of a musical phrase, and
2) a chord progression of V-I."

http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/22cadences.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_%28music%29

We are talking about what is referred to as an Authentic Cadence in classical theory here. The movement from the V chord to the I. In jazz we would normally talk about it as Dominant chords. Now let's review the circle of fifths...



Starting from C, if we would move to the left instead of the right we would land on the F. The C is now the dominant fifth of the F, the V chord. Moving to the left yet again we would arrive the the Bb. The F is now the V chord of the Bb. Move yet again to the left and the Bb is now the V of Eb. This will repeat all of the way through the Circle of Fifths for all of the 12 keys. Moving to the left you have a clear example of dominant chord cadential movement, moving from V to I.

Alright, I'm a bit hungover today so it's a bit of an effort to talk about this theory shit.

EZ

[s i c k b o y]

I see. I'v never noticed that it involved cadences because I just work cadences out in my head, and to be honest I rarely think of cadences when I am composing (although I obviously use them).

[therapist]

F, then F again.

[otzem]

I V vi IV is the shit

so f*cking true