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"Thanks for sharing." This page is particularly interesting to me because it lists types of progressions ... "backdoor?" ... "Montgomery-Ward(!) bridge?" ... "Sears-Roebuck bridge?" ... that I had not previously been aware of.

 

"Yeah, that page just earned a permanent bookmark."

Yes and what I really like about that is they posted not just the audio, but the MIDI. :mrgreen:

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Very similar to the "Nashville Number System."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Number_System

 

Pragmatic professional musicians, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music), who were entirely accustomed to playing in whatever key the client wanted, used "seven numbers" to describe the notes and the chords within the key.

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Very similar to the "Nashville Number System."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Number_System

 

Pragmatic professional musicians, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music), who were entirely accustomed to playing in whatever key the client wanted, used "seven numbers" to describe the notes and the chords within the key.

Cool, thanks for those links.

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A digital computer chord-making tool can be very handy because the computer, being a computer, will always produce the correct chord variation the very first and every time. But I think that you should still also spend the time to understand the fairly-simple basics of "how the trick is done."

 

One of the "classic" way that music students used to be taught this was to have them learn how to read music and then to study "classic" scores. There were various "classic" composers who pioneered many of the things that we use today, and if you can read music you can see how they did it even without playing it.

 

Today of course you can go one step farther – downloading digital copies of those scores which are now in the public domain into your favorite music-scoring tool (mine is the absolutely-free "MuseScore"), and have it play them – perfectly, of course – while you watch. (The "MuseScore" web site references a very large project which is dedicated to doing exactly that, for educational purposes.) Logic also recognizes these industry-standard digital file formats. A few modern bands have even licensed their own music for this educational purpose: you can tear it apart but can't sell it.

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