Chord progression but in which scale???

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radu3

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Hello there,

I found the chords for this track: 50 Cent - Heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjiZoWJ9lY

F#min (F#-A-C#)
Amaj (A-C#-E)
Bmaj (B-D#-F#)
Dmaj (D-F#-A)

My questions are:
1) I found that exactly this chords are correspond to this SCALE: ichikosucho (found on this site Music Scales and Chord Tools for Guitar and Piano). But what are the degrees of this scale? it has 9 keys ??
2) When I compose a chord progression I make the following steps: choose a scale, choose chords progression. OR I can just make chords progression from circle of 5ths. Are this the only ways?

I'm a little confused about this scale: ichikosucho (japenesse scale). I never heard about it, and it didn't appear on music theory books.

Could somebody help me to figure this out? For me it has just partial logic.:)
 
radu3 said:
Hello there,

I found the chords for this track: 50 Cent - Heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjiZoWJ9lY

F#min (F#-A-C#)
Amaj (A-C#-E)
Bmaj (B-D#-F#)
Dmaj (D-F#-A)

My questions are:
1) I found that exactly this chords are correspond to this SCALE: ichikosucho (found on this site Music Scales and Chord Tools for Guitar and Piano). But what are the degrees of this scale? it has 9 keys ??
2) When I compose a chord progression I make the following steps: choose a scale, choose chords progression. OR I can just make chords progression from circle of 5ths. Are this the only ways?

I'm a little confused about this scale: ichikosucho (japenesse scale). I never heard about it, and it didn't appear on music theory books.

Could somebody help me to figure this out? For me it has just partial logic.:)
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1. I'm thinking key of A major with a borrowed ii chord.
Just use A Lydian over it, though the only place I would see that being an issue would be over the Dmaj chord.
A Lydian: A B C# D# E F# G#
Its a possibility, try it.

2. For someone who hasn't developed their ears yet-yes.
 
personally I can see this as both D major and A major the lack of any type of G makes the tonality variable

In A major the progression is vi-I-II-IV

In D major the progression is iii-V-VI-I

as for soloing or writing melodies above these I would be considering the D# as a borrowed chromatic tone and so should only be accommodated against the B major chord

part 2 of your question to me is vague as choosing a scale and creating progressions within it is likely to lead to compromises that you may not want to make

see the following thread for further ideas

https://www.futureproducers.com/for...-pprogressions-major-some-tips-tricks-425408/
 
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