Best chord progressions!

Hi.

I like chord progressions, and making ones up, so I was wondering if anyone makes them up, if so post them here in midi form, and say what the chords are. Try be original, make up strange ones that are interesting. Here are two of mine.

The first one goes Cm, D7, Bb half dim, C+, Cm, D-, Cm, GM.

The second one goes Cm, D-, D7, G7, F#dim, Cm, Eb half dim, G7.

Chord 1.mid

Chords 2.mid

I think, even more important than just the chords themselves is how you voice the chord--what inversion does it take, what's the spread, and which instruments play which notes. I've heard chord progressions that, when played on the piano in root position, are very boring and dull, but sound fantastic when certain composers score them just right.

However, one of my favorites that I came up with (not counting my jazz tunes) goes: Am F Em Cadd9 Gsus4 G D Used it in a movement to my first symphony (still very much a work in progress).

Stuff up, not part of thread.

Hi PianoManGidly, I agree that inversions are important, but I do not Know how to write them in, and you can hear on the midi what they are sort of. Would it be possible to post a midi of your chord progression, I would like to hear it.:P

Better than MIDI, you can hear a live recording of that movement (scored for a chamber wind ensemble) here. You first hear that particular chord progression 37 seconds into the piece, and it's repeated a good bit throughout.

That's a nice song, the chord progression sounds really good in that. It sounds professional. It's original too.

This one still touches me: try to guess the piece.

Dm Gm Dm A Dm C F Gm A

try to guess the piece.

MY SYMPHONY!

Actually, no... may have it, but I wasn't thinking about it :P

Uh, don't stone me, please...

Theme from the Godfather...:P

I've always liked Am F C G. Simple and lovely.

And, of course, arpeggiated Add9 chords are always great. :P

I like this one! It too is simple but me likes it: Em Am Em Bm7 Em Am Em D G!

I like this one! It too is simple but me likes it: Em Am Em Bm7 Em Am Em D G!

Nice, and very easy to doctor as you could change the final G to almost any Dom7 to modulate and it would sound smooth and work, may i steal this?

HELL NO! This is the theme I'm using in my symphony! IT'S MINE!

HELL NO! This is the theme I'm using in my symphony! IT'S MINE!

Bah...there are so many things one could do with a chord progression, though. If chord progressions themselves were such a big issue of copyright infringement, then there'd only be one or two pop songs ever: C G Am F or C F Dm G

...Except for Nickelback, which would exclusively use C Bb F G It's just not Nickelback unless it's got that Subtonic VII chord.

It's still mine! Unless you incorporate it in an entirely different way; my way is consecutive, I don't linger on each chord very long.

If you want your stuff to remain yours just never post it here. That's what I plan to do. I know it sounds boring/unsupportive/whatever, but oh well. Sorry if this upsets you guys.

My prefered chords: Cm, Fm, G, Cm. Nothing very special.

Hi.

I like chord progressions, and making ones up, so I was wondering if anyone makes them up, if so post them here in midi form, and say what the chords are. Try be original, make up strange ones that are interesting. Here are two of mine.

The first one goes Cm, D7, Bb half dim, C+, Cm, D-, Cm, GM.

The second one goes Cm, D-, D7, G7, F#dim, Cm, Eb half dim, G7.

* Cm, ddim,D7,g7,F#dim, cm 6/4 (a must for me), **Eb** mabye G for me.

I knoe the Eb is a bit weird, but it is also original, and the voice of it fits it in a bit, a GM at the end would sound repetitive after a G(M/m?), but there are probably many chords that could take the Eb's place.

ok, mmmm, chord progressions exist, period... the differences are: what voice leading we use, what colour (instrumentation and pitch displacement), tempos and rhythms...

of course there are progressions that might not be common, but they can be explained by theory, therefor is not something we "created"... we just "discovered"...

someone asked about Inversions... well... inversions flow according to the harmonic movement.. avoiding parallel 5ths or octaves, or parallel motion in all voices will lead us to write a good chord progression with its inversions...

here

example_voiceleading.MUS

example_voiceleading.MID

This obsession about chord progression is a result of the almost exhausted melodic resources of the very limited number of modes in Western Classical music. In homophonic compositions, melody guides harmony, and not the reverse. In polyphonic composition, it is the interweaving of melodies that creates the sound so typical of Bach or Vivaldi. If anybody has to create something new, he or she has to look for entirely different traditions of music for new melodies, think in terms of non-traditional orchestral instruments - there are dozends of them - for new sound color, apply new rhythms, new articulations and new vision.

It's like I wanted the first progression to resolve itself, but I didn't get that! Kind of left me hanging. And, I honestly didn't like the second one at all.

lol @ people who think they have "discovered" a "new" chord "progression".

I'm sure there are plenty of people who have discovered new chord progressions, and are discovering more every day... What makes you say this?