Music Theory Question

[Mike Perlowin]

The way I look at it, chromatic chords are like seasoning in food. If you're creating a dish, and want to use a particular seasoning, you add it, and hopefully it will taste good.

If you feel that the sound of a chord fits in a song, try it and see how it "tastes."

Forget the rules. Or rather, learn them and then learn how to break them. The progression of the major 3 chord in "On the Road Again" going to the minor 2, is theoretically wrong, (according to the rules, it should resolve to a minor 6 chord) but in reality it sounds just fine.

Let your ears and your sense of what's appropriate be your guide. If it sounds right, it is right.

[Eric West]

There are no rules.

It's still a Theory..



EJL