A prerequisite to Transposing Harmony like a musician is to conceive and hear the music in functional musical terms, not just as an arbitrary sequence of dots…
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Category: Chord Progressions
Chord Progressions: Minor Add2 (Rootless) Resolved to Minor Triad
C Minor Rootless Add2 (for lack of a better name) with its resolution…
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Chord Progressions: Major Add2 (Rootless) Resolved to Major Triad
Suspension means to temporarily delay the resolution of one or more chord tones…
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Chord Progressions: Sus2 Resolved to Minor Triad
Csus2 (read “C suspended second”) with its minor triad resolution…
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Chord Progressions: Sus2 Resolved to Major Triad
Csus2 (read “C suspended second chord”) with its major triad resolution…
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Chord Progressions: Sus4 Resolved to Minor Triad
Csus4 (read “C suspended fourth chord”) with its minor triad resolution…
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Chord Progressions: Sus4 Resolved to Major Triad
Csus4 (read “C suspended fourth”) with its major triad resolution…
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Chord Progressions: Stationary Harmony, Moving Bass
A simple, but very effective, way to musically expand a single chord is to play a Moving Bass Line under the Stationary Harmony…
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Chord Progressions: Chord Inversion & Bass Melody
One way to expand the musical possibilities of a chord progression is to invert some of the chords in order to create both harmonic interest and melodic movement in the bass line…
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