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What would you do with a library full of free chord progressions? Let's find out...
After I published my guitar chord books, I wanted to create a series of chord progression books that were tailored specifically for the guitar. (I realized that learning chords is kinda useless if you don't know how they fit together.)
But anyway, as I was doing my research, I thought, "you know, instead of making a paper book, why not bring this into the 21st Century and put it on a website instead?"
So that's what I did, and it opened up a bunch of other possabilities; it allowed me to create a lot more chord progressions than I could have ever fit in a traditional paper book and it allowed me to create an auditioning feature.
It would litterally take thousands of paper books to hold all these progressions and this isn't even half of the chord progressions I've made for it!
And this is probablly the best part, if you click on the top half of a diagram the chord progression plays back so you can hear what is sounds like, no paper book could EVER do that. I use piano because it's easier to hear the harmony.
The chord progression diagrams are pretty intersting. I'm using a colored outline to show each chord. This may seem complicated at first, but they're really easy to read once you get get the hang of it, and if you ever have trouble reading one, you can click on the bottom half of the diagram it'll show you each individual chord of the progression seperated, and each one can be individually auditioned too.
I think it's a very innovative way of charting chord progressions; I've never seen it done like this and it really works.
Now, when it comes to guitar, it can often times be difficult to find the best place to play a chord progression, because a chord progression can be played in different positions on the fretboard with different fingerings.
So I spent a lot of time finding the very best positions, and the very best fingerings to ensure ease-of-playability.
I also spent a lot of time working out the very best voice-leadings so that each progression is of the highest quality, but I made sure not to be too agressive with that, so don't worry, there are plenty of great sounding dissonances in there too!
These buttons at the top here are used to browse the progressions and, for all you 'lefties' out there, all the progressions are available for left-handed players too. Just go up here and choose 'Guitar Left Handed' and all the diagrams are displayed on left-handed guitar diagrams.
Also, for all of you P4 tuning guys, I've got you covered too - and that includes bass players, because the bass is tuned to P4 as well, so just go in here and choose one of the P4 settings and you're all set.
This book includes all of these keys in this list here. (minor keys are coming next, so they'll be in there soon) If you notice they're ordered by the circle of 5ths.
I'm working on a search box but it's easy to browse the progressions with these buttons over here.
You can select the first chord [root and formula] with these buttons here, and notice that the root notes are being filtered by what key you have selected. So if you choose G Major as the key then, you'll only get the roots in the G Major scale.
The same goes for the formulas button which is here. So, if we have root note 'C' selected then the formula list would have chords that fit over the C Lydian scale.
Right now there are only seven chords available in here. That's because we have 3-Voice chords selected. Soon I'll have two, four, five, and six voice chords and then the full spectrum of formulas and their extensions will be available in here too.
This button is where you choose what the bass progression is. So if we choose ______ then you'll see that those basses get used in the progressions. (in this case they're the roots of each chord too) Also notice, that only the notes in the key are listed. Non-diatonic notes and inversions will be available soon.
And the last button over here, is where you choose the chord formulas for the progression, and as you can see, the list only contains the formulas that are in the key you have selected and the basses that you selected. This is a HUGE time saver when looking for diatonic chord progressions.
Non-diatonic chord progressions are coming soon.
So that's all for now. This was just supposed to be a brief introduction but I got a little carried away.
I think this is going to be a great tool for composers, or when you're looking for substitutions, or new progression to improvise on, and of course it'll be an invaluable tool if you're studying the guitar, or harmony in general.
This is the biggest book of guitar chord progressions in the world and I hope it'll help you make better music for many years to come.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me, I'd be happy to talk with you.
Alright, make great music and have fun! |