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In phils tutorial on main room house in the Adding midi for top line video, he discusses the chords used. He starts with a cmin chor then b flat maj then g min, then d sharp maj then e min. This is the chord progression. br
My question is how can this work when they are all different keys? When i’ve been writing before if i’m in c minor i would try to keep all the chords and melody ONLY using the notes attributed to that scale/key(c minor).br
Now i know that there are relative minors and majors just like on the camelot wheel and having looked at the wheel this chord progression fits in mostly but there are still some chords that dont fit.br
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It makes chord progrssions so hard to understand!
I’ll have to check the course but are you sure the last chord isn’t an F maj? I think that would keep it in a Gmin scale.br
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Music theory is great as a grounding of how to get things to work or getting out if trouble if you are stuck. But ultimately for me the only thing that’s important is does it sound cool. If it breaks with music theory convention and still sounds good all the better.
Thanks Phil, but just to answer a quick question, br
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If my track is in Cmaj for arguments sake. Am i correct to think that only the notes in that scale(in this case only white notes) can be used in chords, That is if you want to keep it strictly in key?br
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Also i know there are relative majors and minors. Am i right to say that the relative minor is generaly 2 down and maj is 2 up for examplebr
Cmaj- relative minor is Aminbr
Emin- relative major is Gmajbr
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Angus
Nope. Cmaj consists out of C, E and G.br
If you’d only play these 3 keys, you’d get a fairly uninteresting track. You could simply try out what sounds good to you.br
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[quote]daniaan (03/09/2014)[hr]Nope. Cmaj consists out of C, E and G.br
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Yes the Chords is C,E,G but the C Maj scale is all the white notes as mentioned.