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Trouble with Scales/Chords/Music Theory in General? Click Me! (pg. 2)
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| Biatchzxz |
I was doing A LOT of research on chords and what not...
I found this program Fastchords. Its unbelieavle how easy it is to build a progression. I guess trial and error is always helpful, but for the noobies like my self. This is something that will encourage me to learn more and to continue trying to get to where i want to be.
http://www.smartutils.com/download.html
check it out. Its Free... |
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| EliPsE |
| Its nice of you to take the time out to help others. |
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| [-dp-Sensuerea] |
| quote: | Originally posted by don_q
TA's most helpfull thread of the year!
two thumbs up! |
+1
Yeah, Awesome post! Thanks! :D
Cheers,
Damian |
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| Biatchzxz |
| quote: | Originally posted by EliPsE
Its nice of you to take the time out to help others. |
All of you have helped me so much. ANYTHING i can do to help someone else. Even if its simple. It def will help someone out there. but glad i could help
Cheers Mates!!!!!!!!! |
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| Derivative |
just to let you chaps know - ive nearly finished the next section on chord progression from C using a C major scale (with pictures from fruity's piano roll too! woot!).
after that i need to go on some long winded spiel about how all progression is relative to the note you start from - that'll show how an ascending progression from C using a minor scale can sound pretty much exactly like a major scale from C that is transposed 3 or so steps down.
i still need to add a section on minor scales so that should be up next week. |
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| mzvirbulis |
this guy really deserves alot of credit, this is a really great post.
thanks mate |
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| BshidoHEAT |
Ok, I've got a huge noob-tacular question here.
How can I come up with a chord by only reading a tracks melody? |
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| Derivative |
the melody will follow a scale from a root note. 99.9% of the time the bassline is playing the root note. once you have found the root you can play any chord in that root and inversions thereafter. if you want the chords to be harmonious with the melody you would probably end up following some of the harmonic intervals that the melody is playing.
inversions are sort of hard to explain.
if the bassline is playing in C and a C chord = C, E, G, then the first inversion would be E, G, C. its sort of taking the root and sticking it at the end. which makes it technically similar to an E minor chord but with a different 5th (an E minor = E, G, B). so it resolves differently. but you can play these over a melody that is improvised around a C major scale.
but in this way you can basically play a load of chords over the melody of an existing song as long as you know the root from which it is played. if your theory is solid enough you wont even need the bassline to do this since you will be able to identify where the half steps in the scale are and figure out what the scale is.
alternatively, if you know its a minor or major scale - just play 5ths from the root (in guitar books these are known as power chords or 5 chords) and add some of the notes played by the melody.
you cant really go wrong because of the tonal ambiguity of 5ths - both minor and major scales can be played over them.
in summation, this is one of those things where you can pretty much take the root and various notes of the melody and just play them as chords. most of the time it'll work. as such, thinking about the theory behind it just complicates things too much - which is pretty much exactly what ive done here :(
ive been lazy recently and havent gotten around to adding the extras yet. i should really try to explain inversions and 5ths but i hope this post helped somewhat :/ |
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| BshidoHEAT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Derivative
the melody will follow a scale from a root note. 99.9% of the time the bassline is playing the root note. once you have found the root you can play any chord in that root and inversions thereafter. if you want the chords to be harmonious with the melody you would probably end up following some of the harmonic intervals that the melody is playing.
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Thanks for the help ;) |
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| ralpheeee |
| This was very helpfull Thanks!! |
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| funkysouls |
Amazing... all knowledge in here!
very helpful...thanks a lot. |
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