Share your favorite/interesting chord progressions!

[zuul777]

since these are sometimes hard to come by for good ones, i hope alot of you would share some of your cool chord progression creations here... give eachother ideas and such...

[WattsUrizen]

Here's one I had a little while back: (They're notes, not chords. Each line is a chord).

 

C E G C

 

Bb Db Gb Bb

 

A C# E G Bb

 

Bb D G A

 

F# Bb D A

 

G A D E

 

Ab B Db F

 

B D F B

 

Interesting that the sixth chord spells out the name of a great Danish composer. Hmm...

 

I don't really know any chord progressions as such, most of what a write relies upon very specific voice leading, like the one above.

 

One chord that I like to use alot is the so called 'Promethian' chord, that is found often in Scriabin's music. The chord is:

C F# Bb E A D. Very beautiful and useful.

[cool_E]

I wrote a song called "Lose Myself" which had an

interesting progression over the verses...

 

C / B7 / A7 / / /

C / B7 / E / / /

 

I've also done a couple of songs recently that included

a 7sus4 chord. That is a cool sounding chord. One, called

"Searching," uses this progression...

 

 

Am / / / E7sus4 / / / D6 / / / C / / Bm7

 

 

[WattsUrizen]

Just another quick one:

 

Cmaj - F#maj.

 

In fact anything that is:

 

I maj - bV maj.

 

Very otherwordly, as we are going 6 steps around the circle of 5ths in one harmonic change.

[JSimms]

(Am Am/G Am7/F# Am7/F) X 3 Emaj

 

In 6/8, or a fast 3/4 (waltz basically) each chord is given three beats except the E maj which gets 12 beats. This is the verse progression. The chorus is just simply:

 

Am Emaj (repeat) with each chord getting 6 beats.

 

If you have ever heard the song Friend is a Four Letter Word by Cake, then you have a pretty good idea of what type of vibe I am going for on the verse section of this song, only in 6/8 ofcourse.