Q. Thanks. Are they both the same some examples of classical music would be nice as well.
One of my friends says that they're both completely different.
Thanks
Joe
A. I think we all know that a melody is the tune - the series of notes that is played or sung by the solo part. A chord progression is the order of the choices of harmony, and is sometimes played by the pianist's left hand, and sometimes played by a multi-note instrument - piano, guitar, harp, etc. - and sometimes by three or more one-notes instruments. When you consider the Mozart flute quartets, the melody is most often played by the flute, and the violin, viola, and cello join to play harmony; the movement from one harmony or chord to another is the chord progression, or harmonic progression. If you consider the Bach Siciliano in g minor from the Eb major flute sonata, the harpsichord is playing the accompaniment, and the flute plays the melody. The chord progression is usually notated in Roma numerals indicating function, in classical music - you see things like I - V7/vi - vi - ii - V7 - I. In popular music, you usually see the chords themselves written, with no regard to their functional analysis: C - E7 - amin - dmin - G7 - C.
How do I figure out the guitar chords to go with a song I wrote?
Q. I started writing a song, and I usually use the piano the play the basic melody, but I don't know how to play piano, I only know enough to play the melodies of songs.
i really want to be able to play my guitar with the song, but I don't know how to figure out the chords.
this may be a stupid question, but lets say the first note of the song is G, would I just play the G chord, or does that depend on the song?
please help
A. For a budding songwriter - begin and end your songs with matching note and chord. A song in the key of G will begin and end with a G note and chord.
Choose your next chords on the I,IV, &V7 theory.
The chords for the key of G are G, C, and D7.
The basic concept is to use the chords â1â, â4â and â5-7â typically written with roman numerals, âIâ, âIVâ, and âV7â.
Write the Chromatic Scale in a Circle.
A, A#,B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G#
Pick any letter in the circle as Chord â1â, count over 4 for the second Chord in your song. Finish with 5-7.
Examples would be A, D,& E7, or C, F, & G7, or D ,G,&A7, or E, A, & B7, or G, C, and D7.
See the pattern?
If you want another chord add a 7 minor. Such as C, F, G7 and Am.
Good Luck and Have Fun~
Need help with some piano chords?
Q. I've been trying to play all sorts of piano chords, to match up with the melody i'm playing, and i can't seem to find the right chords. For example if i play a E or a G#, how would i know what type of chord would go with that?
A. Write all twelve of your major chords out on a piece of paper.
Now you'll notice that each note appears in three chords. For example A is in the A chord, it's in the middle of the F chord and it's the last note in the D chord.
Now write out all twelve minor chords and you'll see that A is Am, F#m and Dm.
Now that you have all 24 M+m chords written out, if your melody contains E and G# (As in your example) Then you look for a chord that contains both those notes. In this case you would use E, or C#m The choice of which one is totally up to you, whichever one sounds best.
You can of course go into 7th chords and Major Sevenths and extend the list from above, but you'd still be working fromthe same rules. Fromthe 7 group (just write them all out again) you'll add the choice of E7 (not much difference from group one huh?) and from the Major Seventh group the AM7 and the AmM7.
Of course then theres the 9's, 11's and 13's, but the ones listed above are the real answer=choose between E Major and C#minor (Which by the way are the same chord: E6=E G# B C# and C#m7= C# E G# B = exactly the same notes.)
All the best
Cat
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