Is this a valid chord progression?

casper leblanc

I think I'll just change the D into an E and the G into and G#m and strum 'Where is my mind' by the Pixies instead. That makes more sense

Bufalo

Technically, D Major would be the root here, G Major Sus4 would be the 4th (major, suspended 4th), A Major7 would be the 5-chord (major, flat 7) and C# minor would be the 7th, so it'd be a minor with a diminished (flat) 2 and diminished 5. The C# scale would be C#, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#. You'd want to play the C# probably at the 4th fret on the A string, G at the 5th fret of the D string (gives the chord its neccessary flat-5), B at the 4th fret of the G string (heheheh... "G-String..."), D at the 3rd fret of the B string (to give it the flat-2), and leave the E string ring open for the minor third.



At least, if I was a guitarist and not a bassist, that's how I'd play it.

rob

Originally posted by pearlwax
I think I'll just change the D into an E and the G into and G#m and strum 'Where is my mind' by the Pixies instead. That makes more sense

No No No, stick by your song! There're no rules. It's just a theory!
It was Elvis and Miles Davis, the MC-5, Hendrix, Morrison and Zappa and so on breaking the rules in the 60's,
The Sex Pistols, the Dead in the 70's,

Well, maybe nobody broke them in the 80's, forget that decade!
Ok, the hairdressers broke the rules in the 80's!

Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the 90's,

Pearlwax in the Oh's.

Of course that leaves you and Pearl Jam the only ones alive.

Never mind, Maybe you BETTER stick by the rules.

casper leblanc

Originally posted by Bufalo
Technically, D Major would be the root here, G Major Sus4 would be the 4th (major, suspended 4th), A Major7 would be the 5-chord (major, flat 7) and C# minor would be the 7th, so it'd be a minor with a diminished (flat) 2 and diminished 5. The C# scale would be C#, D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#. You'd want to play the C# probably at the 4th fret on the A string, G at the 5th fret of the D string (gives the chord its neccessary flat-5), B at the 4th fret of the G string (heheheh... "G-String..."), D at the 3rd fret of the B string (to give it the flat-2), and leave the E string ring open for the minor third.



At least, if I was a guitarist and not a bassist, that's how I'd play it.

Wow.... could someone tab this out for me? Here's what I started out with (and what sounded jiggly to me):

5----4----3----2----
5----5----3----3----
6----6----4----2----
7----6----5----0----

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On the D- and E-string it has a nice decending line, when on the bassnotes (which are not played but you can kinda feel it) you have another rythm.

Voila, feel free to add or adjust....


and in a answer to rob: I'd sure like to stick by the rules, if I knew and understood them, that is...

So, euh, maybe we should just leave this thread alone now...

Oh! and if I hear this chord progression in the near future, I'm sueing you guys for copyright

Bufalo

Originally posted by pearlwax
Wow.... could someone tab this out for me?

That chord I was plotting out would look like this


E----0----
B----3---- Index
G----4---- Ring
D----5---- Pinky
A----4---- Middle
E----X----

HoorayForHumans

Originally posted by pearlwax
Or is it a crime against all theory (of which I know absolutely nothing!)


A C#m G D


it's the C#m to G that worries me...

what are you talking about? what theory? why does a chord progression worry you?

casper leblanc

Originally posted by HoorayForHumans
what are you talking about? what theory? why does a chord progression worry you?

For the obvious reason, cause I'm not sure if it sounds good.


But anyway, I moved on in the meantime... Let this thread dissapear slowly, but surely....

terminal velocity

Originally posted by Bufalo
Technically, D Major would be the root here, G Major Sus4 would be the 4th (major, suspended 4th), A Major7 would be the 5-chord (major, flat 7) and C# minor would be the 7th, so it'd be a minor with a diminished (flat) 2 and diminished 5.

OMG. if you're going to wax intellectual about it, you need to know your shit.

playing a 4th note on a IV chord would be a flat 7 to the tonic. out of scale. the V chord, you say AMaj7, then flat 7 in your parenthetical. flat 7 would be correct.




anyway, I think the progression is fine. I actually like it more as full chords than powerchords. especially playing the first 3 as barred, then playing D open, with the low A. very cool sound

casper leblanc

Originally posted by terminal velocity
I think the progression is fine. I actually like it more as full chords than powerchords. especially playing the first 3 as barred, then playing D open, with the low A. very cool sound

Thanks, that's the way I also like it best. But it's strange that if you play an open G, it doesn't sound right.

The rest of the post might as well have been in Chinese....

terminal velocity

how are you playing your open G? with your B string open or fretted on 3? try using the opposite

Bufalo

Originally posted by terminal velocity
playing a 4th note on a IV chord would be a flat 7 to the tonic. out of scale. the V chord, you say AMaj7, then flat 7 in your parenthetical. flat 7 would be correct.

huh?!


A suspended 4th on a IV chord is a half step below the tonic. Nothing that I wrote about violates anything. Nowhere did I say to use a regular 4th in the IV chord.

terminal velocity

you have no idea what 'suspended' means. suspended 4th == 'regular' 4th. take the key of C. IV chord of F. if you play Fsus4, you're playing a B flat, not B.