Chord Progressions

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Let's talk about our favorite chord progressions or chords and where we have heard them.

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dont buy midi chord packs (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by jackpot@lemmy.ml to c/chordprogressions@lemmy.studio

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https://github.com/ldrolez/free-midi-chords here is a free collection thats just as good

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[–] beto@lemmy.studio 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice tip!

Also, archive.org has tons of MIDI files. This pack, for example, has almost 170 thousand files.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is that just chords

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago

It's probably a bit of everything: chords, songs, drums

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome! Thanks for that. If anybody knows about something similar but with drum patterns please let me know.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

just look up drum patterns github

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Found this for anybody else interested.

https://github.com/gvellut/dmp_midi/releases

[–] breaks@lemmy.studio 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed. If you really want to pay money for chords get Scaler 2 or something. Still unnecessary but I do enjoy it for inspiration and studying.

[–] favrion@waveform.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it have diminished chords? Augmented chords? add9 chords? Slash chords? Altered chords?

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it has allllll the chords

[–] favrion@waveform.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dunno, I have always liked making my own progressions. These packs defeat the purpose of that.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i use them as inspiration

[–] favrion@waveform.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, that's different then, rather than using prepackaged chord progressions.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

yeah chord progressions are for practicing melodies, inspiration, taking in ideas. i wouldnt make a song with prepacked chords unless i had a really good reason why