So, me I'm bored (I'm also translating an old version of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Practical Harmony Guide" from the original Russian into English, that's an indication of how bored I am as I don't read or speak Russian all that well), and whilst there is some good stuff in this thread, its use of Roman numerals in the given chord progressions is slightly off; either that or the posters are just out there (if you know what I mean). Figured, I'd come in and do some cleaning and hopefully improve the content just a little...
This is great
An example in C major (all my examples are either in C major or A minor, just for simplicity)
This becomes
Fmaj7-Cmaj7-Em7-Dm7
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/chordProgs-01.mp3[/mp3]
i - VII - VI - V7 - VI - iv - V - i
I'd render this as i-[sup]b[/sup]VII-[sup]b[/sup]VI-V[sup]7[/sup]-[sup]b[/sup]VI-iv-V-i
which becomes
Am-G-F-E[sup]7[/sup]-F-Dm-E-Am
Add some 7ths for flavour
Am[sup]7[/sup]-G[sup]7[/sup]-F[sup]maj7[/sup]-E[sup]7[/sup]-F[sup]maj7[/sup]-Dm[sup]7[/sup]-E[sup]7[/sup]-Am[sup]7[/sup]
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/chordProgs-02.mp3[/mp3]
iii[sup]9[/sup] - VI[sup]7[/sup] - ii[sup]9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup] - ii[sup]9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup] - I[sup]maj9[/sup] - VII[sup]7[/sup]
We could also rewrite this as
iii[sup]9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup]-of-ii - ii[sup]9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup] - ii[sup]9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup] - I[sup]maj9[/sup] - V[sup]7[/sup]-of-iii
to highlight the secondary dominant chords in the progression.
Either way, very nice and two ways to render the first chord of this one
scale tone 9th (b9)
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/chordProgs-03.mp3[/mp3]
major 9th above root:
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/chordProgs-03b.mp3[/mp3]
identifying the book:
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