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A Fun Chord Progression Chart for Learning a Guitar Chord Progression

by admin on Sep.05, 2010, under Progressive

A Fun Chord Progression Chart for Learning a Guitar Chord Progression

A guitar chord progression chart doesn’t need to be complex to sound good.   When musicians look at a chord progression chart they often look for simple chord progressions.  This is especially true with many guitar players.  What is one simple guitar chord progressions?  Where did it come from?

 

A Simple Guitar Chord Progression and It’s Mechanics

 

One simple guitar chord progression is the I, IV, V, iv chord progression.  In order to understand this progression more clearly we should look at an example. Let’s look under the hood of a C major chord progression (A major chord progression is often simply called a chord progression.).

 

Major Scales and How They Contribute to Progressions

 

First, we must know the C major scale because it has the same letter name as a C chord.  The C major scale has a C, D, E, F, G, A and B note.  We will call the C note the 1st note and the D note the 2nd note etc.  A chord progression comes from the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th notes.  Therefore, the C chord progression is made up of the C, F, G, and A minor chords (The sixth note leads to a minor not a major chord.).  Now we know how to get major chord progressions.  How about minor chord progressions?

 

Under the Hood of Minor Chord Progressions

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Christmas Sheet Music – How to Re-harmonize Jingle Bells

by admin on Sep.03, 2010, under Progressive

Christmas Sheet Music – How to Re-harmonize Jingle Bells

Christmas Sheet Music is generally like every other kind of sheet music except for one thing; because of the well-known melodies it is more open to re-harmonization. What does that mean exactly? Well, simply by virtue of the fact that everyone knows the melody it’s easier for the piano accompanist to take more harmonic chances.


Christmas songs like Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, Silent Night and Joy to the World are so entrenched in our consciousness that few people even have to think about the words or the melody. It just comes naturally for most of us, at least in western culture, to sing the lyrics and melodies without any thought at all.


That’s what makes it all the more fun for pianists who accompany carolers to take some really neat harmonic chances with the underlying chords. Generally speaking no matter what you do, and as long as you keep the beat going, no one’s going to get lost.


Christmas sheet music is very often notated with accompanying chord symbols to help pianists make good chord choices. Of course, the more talented the pianist the more interesting the choices. That’s why I like chord symbols on Christmas sheet music because, it gives me a general guide to follow and makes it easier to add more chords to the mix.

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Guitar Chord Progressions – Where Do They Come From?

by admin on Sep.01, 2010, under Progressive

Guitar Chord Progressions – Where Do They Come From?

Guitar chord progressions are like baby brothers – you cannot escape from them and they take some explaining. Let us do some analysis on the  term “guitar chord progressions”. In case you did not know, any time two or more notes are played, this is referred to as a “chord”. You probably know that certain guitar chords sound good together. These are called guitar chord “families”. Guitar chord “progressions” are certain sequences of chords that sound so good together that they are used as the musical basis of songs.

Chord progressions are derived from  musical scales like C D E F G A B C. This is the C major scale which is used very often in music. It is just a sequence of notes with no sharps or flats which makes it easy to use to teach music students the principles of music. When we study chord progressions we think of these letters as chords instead of single notes. If we number the chords from one to seven we can work in a practical way with the chords in any key because the basic principles are the same.

If we write out the chords as numbers we have the problem of getting the numbers denoting the chords confused with numbers that are used in the names of the chords. If we are working with the chord B7 we do not want to have to stop and think what “77″ means so we use Roman numerals to number the chords. That way B7 is named VII7. To a newbie that might still be confusing but it is a good way of fixing the problem.

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Choosing Web Hosting Providers that Suit You Best

by admin on Sep.01, 2010, under Tips

There is main thing that is supposed to be your main concern when you are about to build and manage a website; it is the choosing of web hosting. Well, web hosting is the platform that keeps your blog or website stable. Unfortunately, the only thing that becomes people’s concern when it comes to them to choose one web hosting for their website is only affordability. So, whenever they have found one web hosting that is offering them the best deal, they won’t think about it twice.

Actually, there are a lot of high quality web hosting providers that are offering their high quality service with affordable price. The only thing that you should do is just spending some of your time to do some comparisons. Well, perhaps it is too impossible for you to do all the comparison because there are a thousand Webhosting providers today. To help you comparing those web hosting providers easier, there is one site that is highly recommended for you to go; it is Webhostingchoice.com.

This site is especially established by web masters who have been in this field for years so their reliability in providing you information about web hosting is something that you shouldn’t doubt of.

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Visit Thoughts.com Today

by admin on Sep.01, 2010, under Tips

Are you currently looking for one site where you can share your knowledge and in the same time enhance your knowledge toward some current topics that you are interested to? Well, there must be a lot of forums in internet that you can join though surely not all of those forums are reliable, some forums are only visiting by people who know nothing and just interested to exist.

When talking about reliable and trustworthy online forum for you to share your precious knowledge there is one site that is highly recommended for you to go; it is thoughts.com. Some of you might have heard about this site before because the fact is this site is recently popular among bloggers and netters. Actually, there are a lot of topics that are available in this site that you can visit so you can join to share your current knowledge and then enhance your knowledge by learning new thing from the site.

If you are not really sure about the reliability of this site in providing you a media where you can find someone with the same interest with you, please don’t hesitate to give the site a visit right away for further and detail information.

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