I Think this Might be a Dumb Question......

[drebeatz]

But here goes!!!!!

Is there any kind of theory, rhyme or reason to chord placement? Im asking because I just dont know. I have been learning chords for awhile so i have a pretty extensive vocab....Its just .......WHERE TO PUT THESE PHAT CHORDS!!!!!!

I mean I'll hear my favorite Players play a song with these nice progressions and nice and full sounding. Then I'll play the same song and it just dont sound as interesting ......... .............

Then the killer is i'll hear some young kat been playing every bit of two months(exagerrating a bit) come with wide open rendition sounding like my favorite player.
Dont get me wrong...I aint no slouch my no means........I just want to be able to play what i hear in my head. Is there any KEYS to Placement?????

If so...help a brotha out!!!!!!

[B3Wannabe]

Dude!

I know how you feel! I think chord placement is a life-long learning process. You never stop learning about placement. As society changes, our idea of what sounds good changes, so it creates new chord progressions or chord placements. Anyway...What I did to open my ear a little to this stuff was practice my diatonic progressions. In the key of C: If I normally played a C in the bass and an F chord in my right hand, I'd move the F to a Gmajor or Aminor. I'd do the same with the bass. If I normally played a B in the bass with a Dmin chord, then I'd try using the same pattern starting on a different note in the bass. It produced some weird sounds, but some of them gave me a eureka moment.