Q. If you have ever studied music theory, you know what I'm talking about (If not, just google "Chord Progression Chart"). Be as detailed as possible. Talk about what would happen if you didn't choose to follow the chart. Don't say, "It has to follow the circle of fifths" without explaining to me WHY that is important.
A. I went through music conservatory as a piano performance major and later did a second upper-level training in theory and composition, and never -- in all that classical study -- ever seen a "Chord Progression Chart."
ADD: I just googled it: this is a form of popular music theory, and specific for guitar playing more than actual 'music theory.' Please Do Not Mistake It In Any Way As Music Theory: what you learn from a chart like that would not qualify you for admittance to or be of any help to you in a freshman college theory 101 class. It may help you learn your way around basic guitar, but if you ever want a handle on music theory, of any sort, I'd ditch it. Thinking in nothing but 'chords' is very "pop theory" and wholly detrimental to your full development as a musician, regardless of musical genre. /// The shock there is another planet of music theory, often at odds with the pop theory terminology, shows up often enough in this category of Y/A, especially when it comes to analysis and identifying chords beyond the basic triads and seventh chords. END ADD
Some chords work, to all ears, better than others going one to the next. Initially, it is what is first learned, classical or other theory, since one has to start somewhere, and from the basics and beginning is almost always the best as well as most logical starting point. I repeat your chord chart has at least as much or more to do with 'the handiness' of playing guitar at a basic level vs. actual theoretic musical use, or other real musical possibility.
After one further investigates theory, there are no 'rules' but only examples of how, formerly, someone else 'made music work.'
If everyone 'followed the chart,' as if it were a law there would be no more music, no need to make anymore, and all listeners would be bored to tears!
Some progressions, within a certain context, may have one chord sounding really 'weak' - and your flow or structure collapse. That same chord, approached with different horizontal voicing of parts - individual lines, in an otherwise similar harmonic context, could sound 'fine.' That is nothing you will learn to do anything about if you are studying 'chord - chord - chord' instead of approaching those chords as a consequence of several simultaneous lines. -- Because, that is after all, how you learn enough to make anything sound good!
No rules, no laws, just examples of what most commonly 'works' or what others before you have made 'work.' At the time, at least in the common practice period of classical theory, what ended up in textbooks was 'breaking rules' of that day!
You are in trouble if you take those examples you study as a rule or 'law.' - you may have to mimic those examples closely for an assignment, that is so you learn how to work them yourself. It is not intended that will be the way you 'should' or will later compose.
That chart, again, is for pop music more than anything, all the conventional progressions, and very much about how to physically negotiate the guitar while mucking about within that set of conventions. It is a list of what has commonly worked and been done before, no more, no less.
Best regards.
What is instrumental pop, and why is it associated with classical music?
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A. Instrumental pop is simply pop music without a voice or words. Instrumental pop still uses the familiar simple structures and chord/harmonic progressions used in vocal pop music.
The only association with classical music is that made by mistaken/inexperienced people who mix these things up. The reason for the association is that some people think that any piece of solo piano music or music played by a violin, cello or orchestra is automatically classical music. This is because in many people's minds these instruments are primarily associated with classical music when, in fact, ANY instrument can be used in ANY musical genre.
What makes a piece of classical music has nothing to do with the instruments used. The genre of a piece depends on style, structure, complexity and 'tradition'.
Can someone please offer me some advice on my piano compositions?
Q. I'm 15 years old and when I compose a piece, I always use either major or minor chords all the time and it just sounds really 2-D if you know what I mean. Also, my pieces always happen to have the chord sequence: I - V - VI - III - IV -I - II ( or something like that I don't really know how to write it out) and it just sounds really predictable and boring.
Are there any chords out there that are NOT just major or minor and I'm not talking about like modern music. I'm trying to compose piano pieces for like pop, NOT classical - like the kindof music for the piano accompaniment for Christina aguilera songs. Also any other chord progressions that I can use? Oh yeah, and just naming the chords won't help because I wouldn't know what notes to play - can you also tell me the notes within that particular chord please? thankyou very much
A. Try mixing major and minor chords--for example, if you play in C minor, try progressing from that chord to an Ab major chord (Ab-C-Eb)--that progression sounds beautiful and can go so many places, like Bb (Bb-D-F) which could lead back to the C minor, or to Eb (Eb-G-Bb) which could become a resolution to the relative major chord. The most important thing is to experiment--music doesn't have to follow the formulas they teach in school...they just provide some direction. You're welcome to e-mail me through my profile if you want more help, and good luck!
~Scottie
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