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I know this isn't going to be good for a beginner, but check out this site here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths
if you know your music theory, the circle of fifths is the way to do a clean chord progressions, where the melody/chord progression, can lead you to the next chord... so let's say you are starting in the key of C, a good sound would be to go from... C to G to D to A...
You count the chord you are on as 1 and move 5 from there to get to the next note letter... so my chord progression would be 1-5-2-4 ....
Just a theory note... when one is using a 5 chord is most common to add the 7th to the chord and flatten it, as this makes the music move more smoothly into the 2 chord... GBDF.. so Your G chord in my example would be G-B-D-F (because if you were doing the actual 7th of the chord rather then flattening it it would be an F# at the end.)..
If you wanted to skip the 2 chord here, that would be ok, as the 5 generally holds the 2 note in it, however, it does make for a smoother transition to add the 2 in there.
Mind you... All of the above information is used more stylistically for Barberhsop and Woodshedding, however, it does hold up for all styles of music... You might want to look at augmenting some of those chords, and even deminishing some of them, to get a different sound, but for the most part, I stick with the chords as they are, major, minor, and adding 7ths tends to serve my purpouses...
Hope this helps....
Mike
if you know your music theory, the circle of fifths is the way to do a clean chord progressions, where the melody/chord progression, can lead you to the next chord... so let's say you are starting in the key of C, a good sound would be to go from... C to G to D to A...
You count the chord you are on as 1 and move 5 from there to get to the next note letter... so my chord progression would be 1-5-2-4 ....
Just a theory note... when one is using a 5 chord is most common to add the 7th to the chord and flatten it, as this makes the music move more smoothly into the 2 chord... GBDF.. so Your G chord in my example would be G-B-D-F (because if you were doing the actual 7th of the chord rather then flattening it it would be an F# at the end.)..
If you wanted to skip the 2 chord here, that would be ok, as the 5 generally holds the 2 note in it, however, it does make for a smoother transition to add the 2 in there.
Mind you... All of the above information is used more stylistically for Barberhsop and Woodshedding, however, it does hold up for all styles of music... You might want to look at augmenting some of those chords, and even deminishing some of them, to get a different sound, but for the most part, I stick with the chords as they are, major, minor, and adding 7ths tends to serve my purpouses...
Hope this helps....
Mike