Connecting progressions

[tek_uk]

Hi All,

I was wondering if people could share their favorite ways to connect progressions.
I'm still in the process of learning the various progressions (2-5-1, 3-6-2 etc...) but i want to be able to come up with my own songs.
I read somewhere that some progressions work well for song start or song endings and that's really understand which ones work well together that i'm after.
So for example

Song start progressions:

Song end progressions:

Hope that makes sense... 

Laurent

[T-Block]

Hi All,

I was wondering if people could share their favorite ways to connect progressions.
I'm still in the process of learning the various progressions (2-5-1, 3-6-2 etc...) but i want to be able to come up with my own songs.
I read somewhere that some progressions work well for song start or song endings and that's really understand which ones work well together that i'm after.
So for example

Song start progressions:

Song end progressions:

Hope that makes sense... 

Laurent

Universal song start progression:  1-4-5

Universal song end progression:  2-5-1

Any questions?  LOL.

[musallio]

Nice thread..

T-Block has answered what I believe to be the major parts of the question.

if you actually scrutinise those universal progression starts & endings, you will realize that they are pary of the circle of 4ths...

I have many progressions in my notebook that I've made from the circle of 4ths.

The circle is 1-4-b7-b3-b6-b2-b5-7-3-6-2-5..

Another way of forming progressions is taking different chords & then trying to add chords in-between to link them together.

Another way I do it is by utilizing the Chromatic scale, can be up or down or a hybrid of both.

I've touched on this topic in a thread I can't seem to locate now


Anyway, those are other ways of doing it.

Another way I like is using the 6,3,4 & adding a 2 here & there..then U focus on various inversions on the RH..

I did a post on that here:

http://www.learngospelmusic.com/forums/index.php/topic,51440.msg504206/topicseen.html#msg504206

Finally, you can have some basic progressions & add passing chords (I love this 1 because it uses numbers ..just read this document:

http://www.gospel-chords.com/samples/volume-0-86.pdf

I look forward to playing your chord progressions

[jjjoe]

read what I post number system help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that can help you out

[musallio]

read what I post number system help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and that can help you out

My friend is referring to this thread:

http://www.learngospelmusic.com/forums/index.php/topic,53939.0.html

[Virtuenow]

Oooh, this sounds like fun...like connecting the dots!  I am learning something!

[musallio]

Oooh, this sounds like fun...like connecting the dots!  I am learning something!

& it's precisely that...That's why I find it so exciting