Any tips on writing chord progressions? so i sometimes write my own songs, they are really simple...

any tips on writing chord progressions? so i sometimes write my own songs, they are really simple, and the first thing i write is the chord progression, but sometimes i find myself kinda lost looking for what chord should come next. do you guys know any tips?

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Just play what sounds good to you. Or take a chord progression from another song and work with that. Or learn some basic music theory so you know the rules and can bend them.

Learn species counterpoint so you get used to thinking of the relationships between all the notes and using voice leading to link your melody to harmony.

Understand the three functions tonic subdominant and dominant and understand how all of the seven chords in a key fit into one of those functions.

Learn chord substitutions and secondary dominant, basically tricks you can use to add more interesting chords, and use your counterpoint knowledge to fit the melody and all instruments to those chords.

It's not that much to learn.

thanks lads

>Or take a chord progression from another song and work with that
kurt cobain used to do this all the time
literally no nirvana songs are original

Are any chord progressions original?

focus on making the melody so good the chords don't matter. Musicians often tend to focus way too much on functional harmony these days when rhythm and melody are the essential parts of music

just play bass notes and harmonize it

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if your stuck play the diatonic chord with a root a forth above the previous chord this is called the circle progression and will create extremely functional (if not a bit boring) harmonies

pick a key and scale
>C major

lay out the triad qualities for each note in the scale
>C D E F G A B
>1 2 3 4 5 6 7

use the triad qualities to make chords
>Cmaj Dmin Emin Fmaj Gmaj Amin Bdim
>>I ii iii IV V vi vii*

make up progressions with only these chords
make sure to end on some easy shit like V-I to bring it together
go crazy then start polishing it with chord substitutions like Csus or Fmaj7, fuck it up a little bit but not too much

This is actually an effective trick. Bass notes first, sing over it, fill in the completed chords afterwards.

Steal from pop songs and arrange in different order

just play major 7th chromatic mediants at random, it literally always sounds good

This is how you make very boring music
>chord substitutions like Csus or Fmaj7
lol

Unironically this.

is this the clairo thread

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In my experience, I've found more success with writing the melody first, then fitting a chord progression around it. I think it works because I'm tricking myself into using non-diatonic chords to harmonize the melody with and give the progression more color overall.

WHy would anyone listen to tips from some nobodies from fucking Yea Forums. What have any of you accomplished in music? You have 100 plays on your shitty shoegaze track on soundcloud?

this but unironically

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i wish that she was my gf so much, guys

>every anonymous person is a fucking nobody because I am
Projecting

there's no need for more music
there's too much as there is

>every anonymous person is a fucking nobody
lole read what you wrote

chords aren't important
pick random chords and make a song around that

start listening to music and instead of trying to identify what chords people are playing, try to think of it in terms of scale degrees and triad qualities
then you'll slowly figure out that almost all the music you listen to is like this
it sounds boring but that's literally what most modern music sounds like

give me a chord progression and ill write a song

F#7 F#7 F#7 F#7
F#7 F#7 F#7 F#7
F#7 F#7 F#7 F#7
F#7 F#7 F#7 F#7

This

>virgin standard tuning+music theory
vs
>chad alternate tuning and fucking around
literally all my best songs have cum from that

big brain is fucking around with music theory