Members sxyryan Posted March 6, 2007 Members Share Posted March 6, 2007 me and my jamming buddy are looking to improve our improv skills, any of you folks know any fun blues or rock chord progressions we could use for practice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted March 6, 2007 Members Share Posted March 6, 2007 Chitlins Con Carne is a fun tune for rock players to build improv skills. Any 12-bar or 16-bar blues will do it. Maybe you could learn the changes to "I've Got Rhythm"? Time-tested chord progression for improving improv. Learn the basic ones first, then move on to the variations. Start here-- http://people.uncw.edu/russellr/rhythm.html If that seems too much, just mess around with the B section. It's a blast playing over those chords. It may be a bit challenging at first, but hang in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dubb Posted March 6, 2007 Members Share Posted March 6, 2007 House of the Rising Sun:Am | C | D | FAm | C | E | EAm | C | D | FAm | E | Am | C | D | FAm | E | Am | E Shine On You Crazy Diamond:Gm | Gm | Gm | GmCm | Cm | Gm | GmEb - D | Eb - D | Gm - Cm | Gm - D7#9 - D7#9 Hotel California:Bm | F#7 | Asus2 | E9G | D | Em7 | F#7 Nutshell:Em7 - G - D | Cadd9 | Cadd9Cadd9 | Cadd9 - Em7 | Em7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alwaysharp Posted March 7, 2007 Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 Am l A dim l F maj7 l E7#9 l get real dirty and funktastic with that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members red|dragon Posted March 7, 2007 Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 #1 One-Chord Vamp. Pick any chord and just vamp on that one chord. Write a bassline for it. #2 Two-Chord Vamp -a Pick 2 chords in the same key: ex: Amin to Bmin in the key of G major -b Pick 2 chords in different keys: ex: Gmin to C#minor #3 1 6 2 5 1 Vamp Like in the song "All of Me" #4 Blues Blues #5 Jazz Blues #6 Typical chord progression: Emin Dmaj Cmaj B7 All of those you can practice improving over. Check out Scott Henderson's 2 instructional videos to see what your options are for the chords you're going to be playing over. Record something and post it. We'll tell ya how ya did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike7771 Posted March 7, 2007 Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 Try my progression builder it might help. There are a BUNCH of progressions in it (over 100 Major progressions & 100 Minor progression in every key). http://www.guitarknowledgenet.com/LearningRoot/ProgressionBuilder.html Let me know if you need help with any of it. Good luck,Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Iamtheblues Posted March 7, 2007 Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 Dm7 That's it. Just one chord. See what you can do with it, it's quite challenging, yet fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gennation Posted March 7, 2007 Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 These are the current ones I'm working on... a couple 2-chord vamps: ||: Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Bbm6 :|| I play around in D Nat Min for Dm7, and then Bb Jazz Minor for Bbm6. Works great. Reminds me of a Stan Kenton tune. ||: Dmaj9 | Dmaj9 | G13sus11 | G13sus11 :|| This one is pretty much the D Major scale for Dmaj9 and then the D Dorian/C Major scale for the G13sus11 chord. This is a great Major to Minor workout. More chords...this sounds like some song, but can't put a name to it...(it has some very common moves/progressions in it, could sound like a few things) ||: Dmaj9 | Dmaj9 | Am9 | Am9 | Gmaj7 | Gmaj7 | Gm7 | Gm6 | Dmaj7 | Bm7 | Em7 | A7 | Dmaj7 | Em7 | A7 :|| That one has some nice Key changes throughout and kind of has a double turnaround at the end (vi-ii-V-I then a ii-V-I). In a nutshell... Dmaj7 = D Major scaleAm9 = A DorianGmaj7 = G Major scaleGm7 = G DorianGm6 = G Dorian, G Jazz Min, or D Jazz Min (i think those are right)Then D Major for the rest with the Bb Jazz Min for the A7's if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sxyryan Posted March 7, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 7, 2007 thanks a bunch guys! im gonna pull some of these out the next time we get together, it should be a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dimebag666 Posted March 9, 2007 Members Share Posted March 9, 2007 "Try my progression builder it might help. There are a BUNCH of progressions in it (over 100 Major progressions & 100 Minor progression in every key). http://www.guitarknowledgenet.com/Le...onBuilder.html Let me know if you need help with any of it. Good luck,Mike" Cool site man. Bookmarked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike7771 Posted March 9, 2007 Members Share Posted March 9, 2007 Cool site man. Bookmarked. Thanks Dimebag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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