Q. I'm looking for John Lennon's style but still recognizable as a Christmas song. Thanks.
A. Nope, composers and arrangers do that for a living, so unless you want to hire someone, that job is yours. (If you accept a progression from anyone, the piece you make will no longer be yours.)
If you do not yet have the trained ear, sit down at a piano, noodle around until you find something you like, and write it down. Then you have a basis to follow through.
I strongly advise you to have the lyrics first, as working lyrics after the fact of even just a chord progression is heinously difficult to pull off and have it sound good. (They may even help you 'find' the sound / harmony you want!)
Best regards.
Classical Chord Progressions?
Q. I've looked everywhere and I can't find anything about chord progressions that are often used in classical music. Can someone be kind and give me some examples and the name of the composer please? Thanks :)
A. Consider what was used in each stylistic period, by analyzing the scores of works from then. You can look at Mozart piano sonatas, Haydn symphonies o there is a lot of material form which to choose. You can read books like the Charles Rosen book on c Classical style, or books by the Paul and Eva Badura-Skoda, among other musicologists and theorists. You can easily see and hear what is NOT used, bu y exploring works that have a vocabulary that expanded in the decades (centuries??) AFTER the Classical Era. Anything that is essentially what we broadly call the Common Practice era will be fine. No, I am not going to make lists for you - that is YOUR job, as you do your analyses.
Piano Questions. Plz help.?
Q. I just started practicing on the piano. I know all the keys and where they are already. I also know the songs I want to play too but my only problem is how to use the chords in a song or like I find its hard to know what the chords are in a song by ear. Is there any specific way I am supposed to use them or are there a list of famous chords that I can use? Thanks.
A. There are chords that are used more frequently than others, and they come out of the scale of the key that the song is in.
If you are in the key of C, the major scale is C-D-E-F-G-A-B.
You form triads starting on each scale degree (letter)
I- C-E-G - a C major chord
ii - D-F-A - a D minor chord
iii- E-G-B - an E minor chord
IV - F-A-C - an F major chord
V - G-B-D - a G major chord
vi - A-C-E - an A minor chord
and
vii - B-D-F - a B diminished chord.
Most songs will use the I, IV and V chord. This is very simplistic, because in reality, any chord can go before or after any other chord.
But a lot of composers move their chords in the circle of 5ths -
They resolve nicely and sound good. - in the key of C,
a G chord would be followed by a C chord.
The pattern of 5ths gives you this progression:
iii-vi-ii-V-I, or in C it would be Eminor, Aminor, Dminor, Gmajor, C major.
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Title : Can someone please list some chord progressions that would make an excellent Christmas song?
Description : Q. I'm looking for John Lennon's style but still recognizable as a Christmas song. Thanks. A. Nope, composers and arrangers do tha...