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Using the family connections Here's the chord progression for Labor Days. When I invented this sequence I started out with two different motions between mi7(b5) chords and a fixed 7sus4, in this case Eb7sus. I tried them out and discovered that when I played them back to back they made a pleasing sounding oscillation around Eb7sus. An oscillation because we appoach E7sus from one root direction and then approach it from the opposite root direction. I tried the idea that I would transpose this four bar pattern up a minor 2nd and then a major 2nd and liked what I heard when I played them in sequence after the original sequence. Finally, I tried going back to the original sequence and thought that was fine, except that repeating the idea seemed a bit too mathematical, so I broke the symmetry by rasing the last chord by a half step, thereby throwing a curve ball for the ear's pleasure. After I played it all, I was pretty sure I could build an interesting melody on top of it all. I'm going through the play by play here as an antidote to the view that building harmony is a heavily rule driven activity. In this case, I was rubbing different kinds of chord sounds together trying to find a combination that threw off pretty sparks.A family introduction Here's a family of chords that I like a lot that I want to introduce you to. This example runs down all of the possible root motions between mi7(b5) chords built on different roots and a C7sus chord. My newly submitted tune Labor Days got its start because I was familiar with how these types of chord motions sound. blog comments powered by Disqus
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Last update: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 2:14 PM. |
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