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Sep 27 2009, 09:05 PM
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Making the chord progression longer would surely make it more distinguished. Sorry for rushing it a little. Hahaha. I'll come up with a better example soon
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Sep 27 2009, 09:13 PM
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No problem Ben, let me know when you get something together!
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Sep 28 2009, 03:24 PM
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How's this? Should I have used more 7ths?
 I forgot to type in the B7 chord name, I can see now. This post has been edited by Caelumamittendum: Sep 28 2009, 03:18 PM |
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Sep 28 2009, 03:39 PM
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Better now?
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Sep 28 2009, 04:56 PM
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QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Sep 28 2009, 05:44 PM)  Great Ben. I will put up a text for you soon with all the chord symbols. I don't have an answer why Guitar pro uses that sort of labeling. I can tell you about classes I had at Berklee with numerous professors where we covered all possible chord symbols. Idea is to make reading music as simple as possible (especially for musicians who perform unprepared things like in orchestras or sit in sessions, gigs etc). This is why we avoid E with zero and line through it but rather E min7b5 for example. It is also important to do C maj instead of CM and C min instead of Cm. This is just confusing stuff for musicians, but we will talk about it soon I promise. Don't worry about bass line right now, we haven't covered anything for that yet. For time being use just roots. If you are "bored" with roots, use 3rds and 5ths, but I don't expect you to do a walking bass line yet. Idea is to just enrich this arrangement as much as possible. See what you can do with modal interchange ideas I have given you. I am waiting for more uploads when you get a chance ! P.S. When we finish with modal interchange, we will get back to our main assignment  As said, chord symbols and such are really no problem. I know the way to write them so that they are the easiest to read, I would think. We learned that in school 5 years back or so. As said, I would never, if I were to play things with other musicians and give them sheets, write EM instead of E major. I went to a music kinda school for a year, though we didn't learn that much, this is one of the topics I remember. Many of the music teachers there and here in Denmark in general use E for E major chord and Em for E minor etc. I think that's fairly easy to understand though. If I were to specifically explain something to someone without too much knowledge of this, I would write it E major and E minor though. We also went through a bit of different ways in class: EM7, Emaj7, Emajor7, E7M. Em7, Emin7, E7m. etc etc. It all depends on the situation for me. I don't use the chord naming feature that much in Guitar Pro in general, but I can see that you can manually name the chords Cmaj7, Dmin7 etc. Regarding bass: I've always like the bass lines in Alice in Chains acoustic songs. Like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3px0m1Y9Tuc&fmt=22 - I've always considered a bass that plays a melody as well... very melodic. Sure, they land on root notes, 3rds, 5ths etc, but have a nice melody in between at places. I will try and write some less jazzy stuff and more of my own style with modal interchange etc. if that is alright? What is the main assignment again? ADD: and regarding bass lines. I've always like having the bass play something in higher octaves than just your low brutal metal bass. This post has been edited by Caelumamittendum: Sep 28 2009, 05:02 PM |
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