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Chord Help

NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
edited August 2008 in Musicians and Gearheads
So I was messing around last night and recorded these chords back to back:

F maj A#m/F
-1- -1-
-1- -2-
-2- -3-
-3- -3-
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With a bit of alternate picking, and using my chorus/volume swell combo to do a synth kind of thing while soloing over it in the key of F. My question is, does anyone know how to figure out a what chords go well with either of these existing chords? I could easily do that for a verse riff while doing some lead guitar fills over that, and the solo I can mess around with, but I need some other chords to use for chorus.

It's been a while since I've taken music theory, so break it down for me.
If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

7/9/06 LA 1
7/10/06 LA 2
10/21/06 Bridge 1
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    ianvomsaalianvomsaal Suncoast, FL Posts: 1,224
    F-Major triad is: F-A-C
    XX3321 is actually moreso Bb-Minor (the notes being played are: F-Bb-Db-F
    Bb-Minor triad is: Bb-Db-F

    This key is closer to Db-Major/Bb-Minor since Both Fmaj and Bbmin (or DbMaj) are dealing with flats
    (B is flat in the key of F and BEADG are all flat in Bbm).

    Therefore the scale is Bb-C-Db-Eb-F-Gb-Ab
    So, what chords can you build with these notes - just work it out.
    Db-F-Ab= DbMajor, C-Eb-Gb= Cdim, Eb-Gb-Bb= EbMinor, Gb-Bb-Db= GbMajor, Ab-C-Eb= AbMajor
    Plus many extensions and add on's (sus2, sus4, 7th, 9th, 11th, ect) . . .
    http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w83/ianvomsaal/ChordExplination-1.jpg
    Cheers . . .

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    NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
    You are the master, Ian. :D Just the response I was looking for.

    I'll play around with some of those tomorrow morning, its too late for playing now.
    If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

    7/9/06 LA 1
    7/10/06 LA 2
    10/21/06 Bridge 1
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