Posted: 2 Apr 2010 11:36 am
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.
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.
