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Rapataz
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Topic: favourite chord progression in a jamsession Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:35 |
Hi there as most of you are musicians themselves, you maybe also got tired of this blues-scheme all the time as soon as someone gets out his guitar... I love to jam... but all the time this AAAABBAACBAC  I heard it too often and played it too many times. It bores me.... I am searching for nice, enthralling alternatives i can propose to my co-jammers! Of course I am fan of free-form jam sessions as well, but they are hard to manage, if you are jamming with other musicians, you never played with yet. So what do you think?
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rileydog22
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Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:40 |
Yeah, the twelve-bar blues can get a little tedious, but at least it's something everybody knows and is comfortable with.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:42 |
Just pick anything, doesn't matter. If you don't know much about chord progressions, study the theory behind them and by the time you're done, you will feel much more free to create what you want.
Edited by HughesJB4 - July 02 2008 at 17:03
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stonebeard
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Posted: July 02 2008 at 16:43 |
Ew blues.  I usually like major scale progressions, skip some notes to make it pentatonic sometimes.
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laplace
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Posted: July 03 2008 at 02:18 |
I like really complex chord progressions, as when I improvise on keyboard I usually improvise the overall song rather than a solo for it. a lot of the chiptunes I write begin with an unusual structure and sometimes stagnate while I despair of ever finding a suitable melody... =P
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Abstrakt
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Posted: July 03 2008 at 05:22 |
I like | Dm | Dm F G |, and within that, i like to play around with chords like Dm7, Am/D and G/D. Sounds really nice when played quite slowly on Electric Piano with some Phaser & Vibrato effects!  And then there's the one from "Dogs" by Pink floyd: :| Dm Am/D | Dm Am/D | Dm Am/D | Dm Am/D | Bb | Bb| Aaug (Also called A+ or something) | Aaug F Em|: I think that's correct ^ And the one from "Starship Trooper: Life Seeker" by Yes: :| G Eb | C |: That you can play around with by using diffrent chord shapes, and chords like Eb/Bb. Very fun to play!
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Abstrakt
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Posted: July 03 2008 at 05:32 |
Or one that sounds really swedish folkmusic-ish:
Dm | A | A7 | Dm | F | C | A7 | Dm |
Or a bit diffrent (From "Leksands Brudmarsch"):
Dm | F | A A7 | Dm | F | C | G | A |
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FoxClass
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Posted: July 06 2008 at 04:54 |
What I love to do is start with a basic chord (or progression) and then... twist it around a bit. See what I can come up with in that chord to make it sound a bit different and then carry on the progression from that initial idea. I hope that helps your jamming a bit! Sometimes it can inspire epics ;)
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The Pessimist
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Posted: July 12 2008 at 17:54 |
i'm particularly fond of this one in 6/8:
Fm | Eaug | Ab (2nd) | Fm6 (3rd) | Db | C | Db | Eb , Edim
The "2nd" and "3rd" are the inversions, and although it looks complex on paper, it's quite simple to play as the bass note is just descending chromatically and the top half of the chord remains the same for most of it.
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Passionist
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Posted: July 12 2008 at 19:23 |
I actually do change progressions while jamming mostly, though usually the theme is based on a few simple chords like Em (say, Autumn Leaves). It doesn't mean you have to keep the chords the same. I like to add progressions between two chords, such as my all time favourite Am7 - D/D7, which is used throughout the Pekka Streng song "Puutarhassa" which has become quite a cult song already here. Am7 and D gives you a lot of space for changing and improvising both with the lead and the chords. I've seen a lot of pianists run through the board some times. I fancy a chromatic descending from A to D, or just running the a minor scale like Am7, Gm7, an F- variant, E variant and a D7, a bit faster, what ever I feel like, or what ever the guy playing the solo is playing basically. Gmaj7 seems like an easy choise often too.
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Vompatti
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Posted: July 13 2008 at 11:14 |
EEEEEEEE. Changing the chord just for the sake of it is pretentious.
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darkshade
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 02:09 |
comping chords over a vamp is always cool, as well as free form, love it!
but chord progressions i like to do besides the standard blues progression are for example...
the lydian pattern of (for example) Eb major to F major and repeat
G minor 7th to c major 7th
D major to A minor 7 to G major to B minor 7 to C minor 7 to Bb major 7 back to A minor 7
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mrcozdude
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Posted: July 24 2008 at 03:26 |
I'm not sure what my favourite chord progressions are but i keep getting stuck using the same scales mixolydian,dorian and obviously ionian,aeolian.
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