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Ikr, that's why I've just been focusing on my music classes and haven't stopped in here for awhile.

I might start again, just for teh lolz.

On topic, you use an accidental to create a descending line in the chords.

G-F#-F-E

Just hit F# over the D Major chord to get some use out of it, other than that, your progression is just in C Major.

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chronowarp

Or is it...

Gmajor.

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TheAscendant

Thanks for all the...uh, advice? I did get the chord by moving the open C major chord up 2 frets to make the D chord, or what ever freakin chord you'd happily call it(:

@Sleepy_Head Thanks for your really constructive feedback, i've found that to be the most reassuring information i've heard in a while(:

Cheers(:

Hail

soMEONE pLUNGED a dAGGER dEEP iNTO gOD'S cHEST

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griffRG7321

Maj(add11) - nice

Maj7(11) - not so nice

Maj(add11) are used frequently.

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Nope, resolves to C.

Also, the G and F natural are more prominent than the single use of the F#, so they outweigh it, and you can call the F# a passing tone with little weight in comparison.



1-3-5-11
3rd-3rd-7th



1-3-5-7-11
3rd-3rd-3rd-Tritone



Because they don't have the tritone between scale degrees 7 and 4.

Maj7(#11) are really awesome though.

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chronowarp

...I'm not the one saying certain sonorities don't exist or can't be used...but you're disputing why, historically, Jazz players have avoided that specific sonority. That...is the main reason why. A tritone might as well be a M3 to a jazz player...the m2 is more dissonant, and is historically what people have tried to avoid in jazz harmony.

I personally don't mind the sound of the 11th on top of a major chord, but it really depends on the voicing.

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chronowarp

lol,
you really think so?

Play it. Better, record it and improvise something over it. id love to hear.

You can only see one instance of F/F# anyway so neither is more common in the progression. also...having a bunch of G's internally in the chords doesn't mean much of anything.

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Sleepy__Head

Now I've read that and re-read it. I've constructed a useless mnemonic from it, looked up & listened to the original song (meh, I keep trying but metalcore does nothing for me).

I'm beginning to wonder if it was an obscure cry for help.

Either that or I've entirely missed the point?

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Sleepy__Head

You're welcome.

Don't be thinking about 'what scale do I play' - that's the kind of question you get from someone who's sitting an exam; instead think 'how do I want this to sound' - that's the kind of question you get from someone writing music.

Don't try and reason your way out of a bad passage, just keep playing it until you know which bit you don't like, then write something else.

And if you're stuck you can always try using Eno's Oblique Strategies. They can be a bit, um, oblique sometimes but that's the point really. Doing art - any art - is about a thinking, emoting person responding to the world (or some aspect of it), not a mathematician trying to calculate the infinite.

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Hail

METALCORE? excuse me, i'm gonna go kill myself

kezia is an acquired taste tho, it took me a couple years to appreciate it and now it's probably my favorite album of all time

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Sleepy__Head

Killing yourself is so last year.

Life is the new death.

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Leave Metalcore alone (srs)

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That second chord is a tonal clusterfuck based around a pentatonic scale.

I'm playing as if the entire thing was in C Major and adding that F# over that clusterfuck of a chord, and its working fine.

V-?-IV-I in C Major.

The only other option would be I-?-bVII-IV in G Major, and that makes even less sense.

Treat the IV-I as some kind of Plagal Cadence, like in Church music. There's only one F and F#, but the F natural occurs after the F#, which says that it resolves to C Major.

Wait, what are you trying to argue here? The above says my every thought over those 4 chords.

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Captaincranky

You seem to be quite enamored of the C major chord pulled up 2 frets to the D position. "Cluster****",wow, now there's a term of endearment and self admiration for having created it.

The truth of the matter, that "progression" is a hackneyed country cliche that usually leads back to G major. The fact that even I can play and use it, is testimonial to its basic nature.

However, this is MT, where we are allowed to laud even our most basic accomplishments!

Advanced, "thought" on the subject dictates that "scales, modes, and possibly even keys", are "dumb and useless".

With that being said, you could obviously resolve the "issue" as you see fit. Heck, just hammer the F# on D-4 to G,whack that a time or two, then play the C chord. At just before that moment in space time and sound, you'll find you're playing nothing more complex than Em7! (Unless you wrap your thumb around the neck and hold G3 on E-6. Oh wait, that's still Em7... I think we have a huge musical breakthrough here, don't you?

Anyway after we go back to C major open, personally I'd do a bass run from C3 on A-5 to G3 on E-6, play a big G Major open chord, then take my bow, 'cause it still resolves heavily to G major. Just close your eyes and let it happen....

Hey wait, that's IV, V, iv, IV, I....never heard of that before.

(One caveat. You have to lift your index finger off the D on B-2, to get the 3rd of the Em7. Meh, let the guy on bass play the 3rd. Never mind).

This chat has really got my creative juices flowing. I may have to write a country song in its honor.... "O, Liddy-Anne, I luv ewe sewww"! Dude, it's only a start, OK?

chronowarp

Makes less sense...how?

When you hear the F in that series of chords it's clearly the chromatic harmony. But it's pointless arguing like this. Post a recording of you playing over it like it's based around C. I want to hear.

That chord is only ****ed up, in that, it doesn't have a pretty name. Like he said, and as you can hear/see, he just slid up a Cmajor voicing without barring...it's not that bizarre.

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That's literally the best way I can describe that tonal cluster. Its a god damn 5 note D major scale.



I've been analyzing too much classical music, I was under the impression he CADENCED it on that last C Major. Yeah, if you repeat it and eventually conclude on a G Major, I would say that the key is G Major. If you end on the C Major, its going to be C Major though.

Hitting the F after the F# though DOES NOT do it any favors for trying to pull to G Major.







Its a tonal cluster, I don't care about the voicing, it doesn't have a clear cut function to it. The best I see it, all its doing is introducing the F# to imply a G Major tonality.

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:-D

g a r b a g e .

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lol

:-D

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