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Composing a Chord Progression

Composing a Chord Progression

August 26, 2017 By Jon Brantingham 4 Comments

Watch me compose a functional chord progression.

I took the music out that was around 9 minutes in.

Major chart

Minor chart

Article on Diatonic Harmony https://www.artofcomposing.com/08-diatonic-harmony

Listen to the piece from the video, Pancho Villas Rides:

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Chord Progression, Diatonic Harmony, Functional Harmony, harmony

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    1. Nathan Wall

      September 10, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      Hey! Could you draw up this sort of chart for Lydian or other modal chord harmonizations?

      Reply
      • Jon Brantingham

        September 17, 2020 at 6:06 am

        Hi Nathan,

        Modes work in a slightly different way than functional harmony, so it wouldn’t exactly work the same.

        Reply
        • Accordion Player

          October 14, 2020 at 5:09 am

          So these charts cannot be used with different modes?

          Reply
          • Jon Brantingham

            October 21, 2020 at 7:20 am

            These charts cover functional harmony for major and harmonic minor scales. The chords don’t really work the same in other modes. You may have some interesting results trying though.

            Reply

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