Combination of Chords...
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Pumpthrust
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Short answer:Hey everybody!!
I'm a little bit desperate today. Indeed, I try to find chords which are good between them, a combination of chords but I don't know how to do to chords that do well together. Do you have some tips, or some rules to help me in that situation?
Thanks a lot!!
Chord progressions for days....
Long answer:
2. Diatonic Harmony -- LearnMusicTheory.net
If you can't be bothered with either of those, a couple of freebie lessons I did:
Laureat Ramadani
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As i can understand, you know chords but you dont know to make chord progression,
First of all its the scale where you want to start from, if it is c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c
About what note you start from depends on the vocal range of the artist that is about to sing, and also to make sure where the bass behaves best because it sounds different when you play the bass on 20hz, 50hz, 100hz, and that depends on what key you are there
Than you play chords from that key depending on what style of music you play
For example you may want something like
dminor, fmajor, c major
dminor, g minor, c major, d minor
G minor, c minor, g minor, g minor, f major, g minor
If you want more like traditional chord progression your chord progression should have that drop, to make it more relaxing, you start somewhere you go up, and you get back again,
If you want something more dramatic, like rick ross beats, thats a different story,
You should check some chord progressions from songs you like and learn more
First of all its the scale where you want to start from, if it is c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c
About what note you start from depends on the vocal range of the artist that is about to sing, and also to make sure where the bass behaves best because it sounds different when you play the bass on 20hz, 50hz, 100hz, and that depends on what key you are there
Than you play chords from that key depending on what style of music you play
For example you may want something like
dminor, fmajor, c major
dminor, g minor, c major, d minor
G minor, c minor, g minor, g minor, f major, g minor
If you want more like traditional chord progression your chord progression should have that drop, to make it more relaxing, you start somewhere you go up, and you get back again,
If you want something more dramatic, like rick ross beats, thats a different story,
You should check some chord progressions from songs you like and learn more
Laureat Ramadani
New member
Well what you asking is a little bit tricky that even people with more than 2 years experience with piano and guitar have difficult to do but here is something you may want to try and see
Try to make the chords first and melodies second, because on that way you know where your chords and scale, are and you can easier build melodies on top of that scale
But if you already have a melody there, like a vocal hook or whatsoever : than try to identify what notes that melody is playing and write the notes on your daw
Here i got one melody notes are like
F, d, f, d, f, f, f, g, e, c, e, c, e, c, e, f, e, d, c, d
So as we can see on these notes we have the f+d chant at beggining, which makes it a d minor chord
If you play like f, d, f, d than a d minor chord you see that it works together
And we also have c + e chant wich makes it a c major, if you play c + e few times than c major chord after you see that it works together
We also have that g note, wich is a little tricky, because we can add a g chord there to suit to that but that is not a must do , we can , we can stick with only d minor and c major chords on this situation
So chords of these song i would only let them d minor, and c major, because that g and the f its not like chanting too much to add a g minor chord, and we dont want our chords to jump up and down just because one note there
But when the c and the e is chanting there like three times you sure need to add a c major chord there
And when that last note d sure is expecting you to get back to d minor
I hope this gives you an idea of how chords work, all the best from me, Laureat Ramadani
Try to make the chords first and melodies second, because on that way you know where your chords and scale, are and you can easier build melodies on top of that scale
But if you already have a melody there, like a vocal hook or whatsoever : than try to identify what notes that melody is playing and write the notes on your daw
Here i got one melody notes are like
F, d, f, d, f, f, f, g, e, c, e, c, e, c, e, f, e, d, c, d
So as we can see on these notes we have the f+d chant at beggining, which makes it a d minor chord
If you play like f, d, f, d than a d minor chord you see that it works together
And we also have c + e chant wich makes it a c major, if you play c + e few times than c major chord after you see that it works together
We also have that g note, wich is a little tricky, because we can add a g chord there to suit to that but that is not a must do , we can , we can stick with only d minor and c major chords on this situation
So chords of these song i would only let them d minor, and c major, because that g and the f its not like chanting too much to add a g minor chord, and we dont want our chords to jump up and down just because one note there
But when the c and the e is chanting there like three times you sure need to add a c major chord there
And when that last note d sure is expecting you to get back to d minor
I hope this gives you an idea of how chords work, all the best from me, Laureat Ramadani
JulienAugustus
New member
Look into 6/4 chords or pedal chords
hezekiah
Soulful Keys
Smooth Chords
If you want something to stand out, I would forget about playing chords all in the same scale. Experience and use borrowed chord from other scales. There are lots of tips and techniques at the link below.
Also in this video here.
Check out Soulful-keys for more
If you want something to stand out, I would forget about playing chords all in the same scale. Experience and use borrowed chord from other scales. There are lots of tips and techniques at the link below.
Also in this video here.
Check out Soulful-keys for more
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HolisticSongwriting
Writing/Producing Coach
Hey man!
I have a whole free PDF of over 143 Chord Progressions that sound great on my website:
blog.holistic-songwriting.com/ (the banner on the right)
It comes with song titles and arrangements as well
All chord progressions are easy to learn and ready to play!
I have a whole free PDF of over 143 Chord Progressions that sound great on my website:
blog.holistic-songwriting.com/ (the banner on the right)
It comes with song titles and arrangements as well
All chord progressions are easy to learn and ready to play!
indoshipyard
indoship
Thanks for the video, that help me too