Chord Progressions

Todd Dreiling · Unread post by **Todd Dreiling** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:20 am

Does anyone know of a good website or book that teaches about chord progressions? I appreciate all help

Also +Even though this is like my third post or something, I have been reading a lot of the message boards for the past month or so. I must say that this is a pretty sweet place. Continue with the good work yo>.
TOdd

Easy E · Unread post by **Easy E** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:35 pm

basically for chord progression you pick a beginning note, for example G. Chords are listed from I to vii for all the notes. Capatalized for major, lower case for minor

so:

I - G
ii - Am
iii - Bm
IV - C
V- D
vi - Em
vii - Fdim

Change the beginning note to change the key.

Hope this helps some.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:45 pm

i don't think most people will understand that, they'll need more basic information on the construction of scales...

duluoz · Unread post by **duluoz** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:05 pm

Sorry to be kind of nitpicky, but the V chord is a dominant rather than just major. Also if you were in G the Fdim would be F#dim. As for more stuff on chord progressions, check out this website http://www.zentao.com/guitar/theory/

You should look at the cicle of fifths part for information on various keys and such.

Easy E · Unread post by **Easy E** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:44 pm

yeah i was rushing, i've never found a good place to put a diminished chord in a progression so I didn't even know

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:03 pm

duluoz wrote:Sorry to be kind of nitpicky, but the V chord is a dominant rather than just major.

it doesn't matter really since he didn't put any sevens anyway... but yes if is was a 7 it would be dominant...

can we have more discussions about this kinda stuff... im getting kinda tired of people asking for help on crash into me...

Easy E · Unread post by **Easy E** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:14 pm

Fatjack, your quote, Professor Frink?

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fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:26 pm

eze3484 wrote:Fatjack, your quote, Professor Frink?

Professor Frink Professor Frink he makes you laugh he makes think, Laven.

-"I will tell you about project GLAVIN MEHAVIN !"

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duluoz · Unread post by **duluoz** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 9:35 pm

Yeah, oops I forgot to put in the 7s :roll:

. So, its all good

Todd Dreiling · Unread post by **Todd Dreiling** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:51 pm

Thanks for the respones, Actually, when I posted this, I was a little lazy with my typing, and didn't really ask the entire question. . .

I understand the chord consturction just fine. However, I understand the basic chord progressions, but what I am interested in learning is for example: why D7 resolves to the tonic so well (G). Why D7 sounds better than D. . . That question makes sense.

Also, I am trying to understand when it is most apropriate to use a 7th chord. Sometimes they don't always sound good, but in certain places they do. Really I am looking for a good website or something, because you could type many pages on the board about it sense it is such a broad subject.

I really do appreciate all of your help, thanks guys/girls, and hopefully all of this made sense.

Todd

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:58 pm

about the resolution thing, a little too tough to explain... its like trying to explain why some people like milk and others hate it (it just happens)

as for using sevenths, its all about the type of music... maj7 sound jazzy and mellow, dominant 7's sound bluesy and kinda funky, and min7 are just a softer jazzy sounding minor chord (actually, the min7 is probably used the most of the three and in more types of music...)

if you have anymore questions, try and catch me on AIM...

duluoz · Unread post by **duluoz** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 10:09 pm

The D7 resolution thing partly has to do with D being the 5th of G. The 5th is a pretty integral part chord realtionships.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 10:54 pm

duluoz wrote:The D7 resolution thing partly has to do with D being the 5th of G. The 5th is a pretty integral part chord realtionships.

but i think the reason D7 works better than a normal old D is because D7 has both the 5th and the 4th of G, the 4th being anothe note that resolves well to the root...

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