What kind of patterns do you like to use most in your music? Share some pattern's you know.

I like (C major)

C-A-F-G: Super simple yet easy to write a melody to.
C-G-A-E-F-C-F-G: Canon pattern.

(A minor)
A-F-D-E: Again, very simple but effective.
A-D-G-C-F-D-E-A: used this for TWMA. (F and D is interchangable)

Chord (The notes) in pattern :

C - Eb - G (Cminor) , C - Eb - F# - A (Cdim) , B - D - G - B (GmajorIIarpeggio) , C - Eb - G - C (Cminorarpeggio)

It's common in the Zorn Valse No. 2 also.

Didn't we have a favourite chord progression thread already? :think:

Maybe. I think we actually do, go look KK.

or this could be in composing general chat:think:

just thought i would throw in the standard rock patter. It is a I IV V7 I chord so in the key of c it would be CM FM GM CM Another really nice progression is the 12 bar blues chords are all seven chords in root postiton. The progression is G C G G C C G G A D G D it concludes well on the root g

Didn't we have a favourite chord progression thread already? :think:
Not that I know of. Perhaps you're thinking of Favorite Key?

or this could be in composing general chat:think:
It would quickly get off that topic.

Yeah, this thread has every right to be here unless there's an identical one buried in the trenches.

Currently composing with:

Am - E - C - F - Am - Bb - Am

Hm... My favourite progression would be: Eb+, G-, G-(dim), F-, F- (dim), Eb+, A-7(dim 5), Bb+.

Currently composing with:

Am - E - C - F - Am - Bb - Am

Hey, that's pretty cool.

C-G-A-E-F-C-F-G: Canon pattern.

C-G-Am-Em-F-C-F-G :heh:

My favourite? Probably the circle of fifths . . you can't find anything more complete.

I - IV - VII - III - VI - II - V - I
C - F- Bm - Em - Am - Dm - G - C

Here's a progression I've been playing around with for a few days... I'm probably going to use it in one of my tentative waltzes or something.

FM - Am - DM (sus. 4th, add. m7th) - DM (add. m7th) - Gm - BbM - Gm (add. M6th) - EbM(add. M7th) - AbM - Cm - Cdim. - DM (add. m7) - GM - G (sus. 2nd, sus. 4th) - GM

Well, here is a progression I've experimented with in order to bring in some chromaticism:

I - iv - bIII - bIV - N6 - V - I

Basically, it uses the minor subdominant chord to reach the flat submediant, which is then used to tonicize the flat supertonic (that is the Neapolitan). I've also worked with similar progressions using the neapolitan chord since I'm trying to learn to use more chromaticism in my composition, like the late Romantic composers did (that being my favorite era of music, really). Right now, I'm working on a piece that uses the following to reach a half cadence:

I - iv - bIII - bIV - II - V

*whoosh*
That is the sound of all that going over my head. I never understood the way chords are written down very well...

Hey, I was like that too, but since I've been playing more Rock/ish music around him, I am learning the different chords, and actually knowing what notes to play. :lol:

ABOUT TIME !

I63--IV--I7(third inversion)--down scale from III to III and repeat. Creats an interesting loop.

Though not a choird progression, but when it speeds upto 190 in tempo in the piano solo of Wing Stock, from Bleach, is a definite pattern that continues to repeat itself, until it changes for the ending finale. I like both of those patterns.

The sheet music for the song is sadly, not on this site, but on a sister/brother (I think @.@) site. Either way.