Friday, March 16, 2007

The C progression

The C progression is quite a unique and amazing piece of musical material.
It is made up of the following chords :

C
Dminor
Eminor
F
G
Aminor
Bsus
C (again in the higher octave)

Many many songs have been composed on the C progression and the C scale.
Most notably : Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah

I've usually maintained that music can very easily betray emotions and speak to u...
Well, if you look at chords, thats what they do too! F for instance is that weird emotion which can depict uh...this strange feeling inside u almost like surprise sadness or happiness...Its typically a transition chord to move from one emotion to another

'D' though is ur typical happiness chord...Similar thing can be said about G...But u twist D a lil bit and then u end up with 'Dminor' again more inclined towards sadness!

And what can you say about C! They teach u this one firsht...Cos its easy and simple and just plain nice!

So the C chord is a mixture of Nice, Happy chords and Mysterious sounds and music which can make u sad and happy at the same time...

Tada!?!?

So the progression C, is made

3 comments:

Krishna said...

You lucky dog :)

Goley said...

huh?

Murali said...

whilst goley is left to blink her pretty eyes in a look of bemusement probably, Krishna will explain his lucky dog comment to me...