Chord Progressions – Piano-ology

Transposition: The Musical Way to Transpose Harmony

A prerequisite to Transposing Harmony like a musician is to conceive and hear the music in functional musical terms, not just as

C Minor Rootless Add2 (for lack of a better name) with its resolution…

Suspension means to temporarily delay the resolution of one or more chord tones…

Csus2 (read “C suspended second”) with its minor triad resolution…

Csus2 (read “C suspended second chord”) with its major triad resolution…

Csus4 (read “C suspended fourth chord”) with its minor triad resolution…

Csus4 (read “C suspended fourth”) with its major triad resolution…

A simple, but very effective, way to musically expand a single chord is to play a Moving Bass Line under the Stationary

One way to expand the musical possibilities of a chord progression is to invert some of the chords in order

Secondary Dominant Seventh Chords are a powerful way to expand the harmonic (and melodic) possibilities of music beyond the seven