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Subject: same ol same ol
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Original Message 1/6 30-Mar-00 @ 03:07 AM - same ol same ol
I've had no theory lessons or anything, just taught myself a bit mainly from stuff on the net. I kinda know the basic concepts of scales. I know that there are basically 4 major chords and 3 minors or something like that that go in a scale (something like that). I have read about the circle of fifths and can see how some some chords naturally progress to others...
The problem I've got, and I'm hoping some of you learn-ed types out there might give me some advice on a coupla things....
All the chord progressions I write tend to sound very "same-y", though I try using different keys/scales or whatever. Very vanilla sounding. I think this could be cause I've (mainly) only been using major & minor chords (and inversions) with the odd 7th thrown in there. Should I look into more freaky chords to get more interesting stuff..?
Whats modulation all about.. are there any rules? If I have a chord sequence that repeats... is there any way to "work out" what chords would go good after that? Transpose it all up someing similar?
Nutha question... if a song/riff/whatever is sposed to be in C major... does that mean that all the chords/notes should only contain notes in that scale... or is that not quite right...? :-)
Any good websites on this stuff? Think I've checked most places though. Any book suggestions?
Sorry if thats a bit disjointed. Thanks for any advice.
-Steve
Message 2/6 30-Mar-00 @ 03:28 AM - RE: same ol same ol
.. oh well no matter.
Message 3/6 30-Mar-00 @ 04:19 PM - RE: same ol same ol
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