Chord progressions

[Micro79]

What would you call a person who does nothing but compose chord progressions for songs. He doesn’t compose melodies or write lyrics. Just chord progressions.

[rhythmgj]

The short answer-- A songwriter or co-writer (see "Rogers & Hart"), or a composer.


GJ

[Micro79]

I never knew chord progressions could be considered a song by itself. But I guess times have changed.

[yusatiko]

Music Maker.

[Micro79]

How about an emotion mover.

[rhythmgj]

They are not, necessarily. Neither are lyrics by themselves... All part of the process.


GJ

[dellman]

If the chord progression does not at least suggest a melody to this person, I'd call him me in the 3rd grade.


Nah, I take that back.

Never mind, maybe I misunderstood the question.

[Micro79]

What I came up with was, “the help”. Lol. We’ll call that person the help. I guess if you have a really good chord progression but know melody and lyrics. You don’t have a song at all. You just have harmonies. But! You can receive a writers credit for coming up with chords I heard. I’ve made many productions where all I had was a synth pad instrument playing a chord progression and a synth bass playing the root notes from the chords, I had synthetic drums and some other sound effects, without a melody and lyric. And still received 50% writers credit for the background music I composed and produced. So I guess so.