Chord progressions

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:46 am

Anyone have any nice chord progressions to improvise over to get the juices flowing? Here are some of mine:
B flat Maj7 --> Dminor7.
BFlat-->C-->Eb-->G
B flat 'on top of' C --> Ab 'on top of' B flat.

I also like having a C major7 chord as the foundation of a groove, and playing the notes from that chord and from B7 for the melody or lead. It seems to work for me - it sounds sort of Arabic/Indian. Hmm.. Jazz....Nice.....

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:50 am

A few of my favorites..

Cmaj7 - Fmaj7 - Em7 - Am7 (continue to your liking)

Hm9 - Gmaj7 - Em Cmaj7 (loop)

I'm also a maj7 man

And Xm9.
Usually I use mostly minor chors... they sound.. emotical. A few maj7s (saddest major chord

) is a good spice.

[ This Message was edited by: spoimala on 2004-01-24 03:55 ]

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:55 am

Take a chord progrssion, such as spoimala's first one, and transpose only the bass down a 5th. It will give you 9b5 chords without thirds in them. The feeling of the tune will tell you whether the chords are minor or major.

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[ This Message was edited by: paulrmartin on 2004-01-24 09:56 ]

ElectronicaDub · Post by **ElectronicaDub** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:59 pm

Hm9? My keyboard won't play that chord. I don't seem to have any H notes. Oh well, it is an old keyboard.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a play and see what I come up with.

[ This Message was edited by: electronicadub on 2004-01-24 17:00 ]

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 9:10 am

H is B natural in the german musical language.
B stands for B flat in the same language.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:11 pm

On 2004-01-24 09:55, paulrmartin wrote:
Take a chord progrssion, such as spoimala's first one, and transpose only the bass down a 5th. It will give you 9b5 chords without thirds in them. The feeling of the tune will tell you whether the chords are minor or major.

Are you serious? To my ears this will resut
lt to extremely weird sounding chords.

Btw, isn't the result maj9b5 chords

pseudojazzer · Post by **pseudojazzer** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:48 pm

i've been playing around with going up in minor thirds recently, sounds cool, eg. Fm7, Abm7, Bm7, Dm7... it goes round in cycles and depending on the voicings can sound pretty sweet.
peace

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:11 pm

just off the top of my head, I remember going up and down in either fifths, forths, and choosing between a minor (and variations) and major variations sounded pretty cool. You should be able to do this with more than just forths or fifths.

Also, if you use all whole notes except the fourth (would be F in a C maj scale), it'll be a sort of modal scale, and you'd be free to do whatever you want. The bass would determine the chord.

Another one I like, similar to Paul's idea, is to transpose the bass of any major chord and transpose it a whole note up. You can add variation notes to the major chord to your liking. You also don't have to think much about keys when you're doing a sequence of these chords. Just move parallel to wherever you like.

[ This Message was edited by: kensuguro on 2004-09-27 20:18 ]

doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:35 pm

How about

D Bm G A G
D D6 DM7 F#m
G G/F# Em Em7 G G/F# Em Em7
G G/F# Em Em7 G G6 D Bm Em7 A7
D D6 DM7 F#m
G G/F# Em B+ G G/F# Em Em7
G G/F# Em Em7 G G6 D Bm G F#7
Bm Em C#m7-5 F#7
Bm G G/F# Em Em7 G6 A7
DM7 D6 F#m D+
Em B7 Em F#m
G G/F# A A/C# D Bm G Gdim D ?

Plenty more where that came from.

firubbi · Post by **firubbi** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:07 pm

Asus4/D Am/D Asus2/A Em7/B Em9th/E ...
working.... lol