Bro I like this a lot, it reminds me of lady in my life. It’s deffo popish but with little jazz touches here and there!
I wouldn’t go for full jazz, I think popish with a jazz touch is super cool already
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Thanks bro and yea I thought it sounded like a girl singing lol I dont want to ho full jazz but I need to know what im doing around jazz so I can make smooth jazz and rnb type stuff.
Lately im realizing that I am heavily influenced by gospel too…
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Bro im using scaler 2 to type to get better at building progressions and learning modes… im playing around with the d# altered scale .melodic minor 7th … its like a completely different universe of music. I do t understand it at all but I want to make something from it.
I hope that jazz ology book covers how to manage logic in the progression with this stuff. I usually use Dorian and sometime lydian/mixalydian but this stuff doesn’t seem to have any real flow …
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Bro tbh I wouldn’t rely on a crutch like that personally. Imo it limits the way you percieve music, you don’t need to get complicated with harmony.
You can experiment a lot. For example, what happens if you stack a third interval over another third interval, you get CEG. If you remove E and put it one octave higher sounds totally different CGE (this is called an open voicing, cuz the range is wide)
About the chord progression I would try to learn it by ear. Pick a song you like and try to figure out which is the progression. And then copy it. No one has copyright over a chord progression.
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Ok im gonna do exactly that then !! And yea bro everything g is by ear but would learning more therory actually help or hurt me? Ive heard alot of younger musicians saying you dont need to understand too much theory to make good music…
I only know basic music theory and very little about jazz aside from extentions and the use of 7th chords ext…
Im honna send you what I come up with today in a pm. Need brutal feedback. Legit I cant tell if its pure garbage or sounds ok lol
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For example, this progression is pretty basic root, 3rd, 7th and a random note that sounds good over it. I was just experimenting with it, 4 note voicings.
I think knowing voicings on piano is more important than knowing a lot of useless theory stuff.
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Ok …im gonna get some Boney James and and learn a few of my fav songs. Will be starting that monday.
I do want to know tho… If theory is usless why go to school for music? Not being an ass but legit asking
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Networking is the big one. If you find a good teacher he or she can help with technical profficency. Also you can teach higher education with the degree.
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Also..I like the progression. It sounds like the music is try to make. I guess maybe im trying to hard to be a “Real” musician and im forgetting what’s important.
Legit tho bro.. that little progression i made was a challenge to make make sense. And the little melody was a little tougher. I kinda enjoyed it lol
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Sounds experimental. Idk if that’s what you going for. But music tension is only a tool.
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Welp…im gonna take your advice bro. Im still on hold with the sax. The guitar started to be more interesting but fr man… I want to be a good musician…whatever that takes.
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Voicings (piano knowledge) is important for every composer. Idk if you call this theory
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Yea..it was totally improvised and a first Crack at that mode. Like I said im gonna get some good jazz and learn/play those and maybe gain some skill
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OK I will also look into voicing. Im pretty decent with inversions and slash chords but now that I think about it I never even consider voicing really
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For sure bro, you need to learn how to write and talk before writing a book!
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So true lol
I do know some stuff tho !!!
I have like multiple courses im supposed to take but I never do and just keep making music. I guess if I want to get good eventually im gonna have to do stuff thats not as fun.
Anyways..thanks for the advice. When I do a few songs and maybe try to add my own melodies to them I will hit you up. Im starting mondat…Hopefully
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I just realized that altered mode is really dissonant and hard to resolve. Im gonna try to go out of key and resolve the high tension
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I think you are right about playing around with sound. The theory foes matter but it feels more deep to actually play things out on the keyboard.
Speaking of that i am playing around with b9 b11 b13 and its still difficult to resolve in the way you do with other chords.
Also in scaler it keeps saying a 6th chord is an add 13 chord. If I was just relying on scaler alone I wouldn’t fully undertand what it was doing. But ive used 6th chords for a while now.
Anyways…im still gonna use scaler tbh but I might ho back to building the progressions myself withought having everything laid out.
Point being I see your point 100% but I also think the tools and theory is useful.
Also bro… sorry about all yhemessages but im learning alot rn.
I just realized that I always land my melodies on the strongest not of a chord ..like the chord tone. I looked it up and ai said most western music does land on the chord tone for stability.
I remembered us having a conversation like a year ago and you were telling me to not hold long notes on the root chord. Did I miss understand or is it generally ok to land a melody on the root note if its the dominant tone or whatever.
I promise this is the last question lol 
Anyways…hope your doing good ..chillin with some sexy woman or something lol
I started something, I’m using splice sounds and just adding to stacks, maybe in time I can make my own but for now I will use samples and loops etc.
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