The Best Chords to Follow Chord VI (in Major Keys) - Music Composition
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Are you struggling to get started in writing a chord progression? If you want to use chord VI what are the best options for chords to follow? This music composition lesson gives you plenty of options for chords that progress well from that starting point. This video shows you how the chord progressions work in major keys, and explores how root position chords might integrate well with occasional inversion chords. The more common progressions are included alongside some less often used progressions, which are nevertheless effective. Some progressions work well at the start of a phrase, others at the end of the phrase, while others would work best mid-phrase. If you’re a composer looking for ideal chord progressions this video is for you.
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction to the best chords to follow chord VI in major keys
0:25 - How chords work
2:40 - What's the point of this video?
4:49 - Working through the example progressions
10:47 - Conclusion
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This is very helpful to a musician like me who has no formal training. I will toss these around looking for inspiration. Thank you!
That’s great. Enjoy!
Thanks a lot!
A pleasure. Thanks for your support
Fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing this. Love the chord iii progressions in particular.
That’s great. Glad it’s helpful
Thank you, I think you have exhausted the possibilities, at least using root position chords. I do like your exploration of III chords. Some of your progressions sounded very English mid 20th century, probably because it produces a rather modal flavour.
Second inversion chords are also chords that students are quite often told to avoid. Progressions using second inversions might be an interesting topic. Somewhere, I saw a comment, perhaps a critical comment, that Berlioz used second inversions quite often, with the explanation that second inversions are often inevitable on a guitar (Berlioz's main instrument), though I don't know how justified this comment was.
A pleasure. Yes, we could organise that.
Would love to see you do a series about Vivaldi and his progressions , what makes them sound so effortless and exiting and never boring. The vivaldian style!😊😊😊😊 thanks for the videos❤❤
Okay. Will put that on the list
Wonderful Garreth.
These sound great for Christmas music.
Glad it’s helpful
When you first played VI to III, I immediately heard V following it in my head. But I really liked IV following it. I never would have thought to use that.
It’s always good to expand chord progression possibilities
This is great, reminds me of some of my old music teachers. It also a good lesson, to be exploring progressions and training your ear. If your new to chords another idea start from the first chord and do 5 progressions starting from chord I and the repeat for II etc. This is a really great channel!
That’s a good exercise. Thanks for your positive feedback re the channel
Hi Gareth - Thanks for another video on what chords can follow [ X ]. This is really helpful in composing. Using Roman Numeral chords helps understand the chord's function, whereas using "jazz" nomenclature doesn't aide an understanding of the function of the chord in the harmony. However - it is useful (to me and I guess many others) to be fluent in both Roman and jazz nomenclature especially when seeing lead sheets.
Absolutely. Be able to switch between the two.
Good work sir, kindly do a video on functional harmony, becouse we need to understand it in relations to chords progressin chat. Thanks
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Of course, an added attraction of progression 7, or any other where the bass moves in thirds, is the possibility of filling in the thirds with passing notes, giving in that case a descending scale from A down to D.
Absolutely
Hi Gareth,
Wow, these chord progressions with the simple triads are beautiful. Would it weaken the progressions by adding the minor 7th to the chord 6? In C Major a chord 6 with added 7th ~ a,c,e,(g), would contain the Tonic chord in it as well as two tones of the chord III. So a vi7- iii - I could sound like one giant Tonic C Maj 7(6)chord?
You can certainly add the 7ths and the overlap with other chords is also then clearer. I don’t think it sounds like one giant tonic but the tonic certainly floats around in the progression.
Question: Usually 1 is the tonal center and is good to resolve down to there. However, is it okay to finish things on a 5 (or other chord combinations) as long as it sounds good? Just curious.
Most pieces finish on I but some pieces or movements finish on V. Absolutely right that the acid test is simply - does it sound good?
are vi , iii, I all "tonic function" chords?
vi and iii tend to occur after tonic chords. The tonic chord itself doesn’t have a need to progress anywhere as it’s a chord of resolution. We could make a video on functional harmony.