Some Guy That writes Music Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 I'm writing Dies Irae and I've basically been using the same 4 chords (all of which are minor) and now I'm trying to write my Quantus tremor and I'm just stuck because I've used my 4 Chords so much already that it'd sound repetitive if I used them again. MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu Dies Irae > next PDF Dies Irae - Score Quote
Monarcheon Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Which style are you trying to emulate (if any)? There are a number of different solutions, the most common one being the V/iv (I) so you can set up a chain through the circle of fifths and hop off whenever you want to. The other way is to use the deceptive cadence (less popular) to set up sequences in your melody. I generally notice a lack of the III chord in the piece, so that could be a good place to go to to set up relative relationships. Quote
Luis Hernández Posted April 29, 2018 Posted April 29, 2018 Some ideas to modulate to unrelated tonalities: From the last chord (A) you can go to Bm and stay in that tonality. You can consider that A cord as bIII of F#m: D - C# - F#m.... Put an Adim7 after A to fill the measure and use it as dominant to anothe tonality, for example Adim7 (=F#dim7) - Gm (or Gmaj). Having the A chord in first inversion, you could consider the neapolitan sixth chord of another tonality: N6 (A) - Ab/Eb - Eb - Ab. Quote
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