Hi There,

I do compositions on almost daily level, but sometimes I feel a little bit lost, when I want break out of a scale corresponding to the Circle of Fifths. I use quite a few tools to help me, but none of them has helped me gain the overview or enough insight of what I am really doing. It feels like, when it works to enter chords out of scale and succeed, it's more luck than knowledge.

Let me give you an example:

G2 - D/F# - E7sus4 - E7sus4
G6/B - G6/B - A7sus4 - A7sus4
G6/B - G6/B - E7sus4 - E7

This is the Intro of a composition, and the 1st verse starts in CMaj7

It sounds nice, but I simply can't figure out why or find an answer that makes me understand, why these chords works well together.

G & D are in the Circle of Fifth of G Major, but E or E7 is not
G & A are in the Circle of Fifth of D Major, but E or E7 is not
.....puzzled or bamboozled... confused

The obvious answer is: Study music theory
The more lazy solution: Ask people in the forum

My goal: I want to know that when I do songwriting in a certain chord progression within a key, I want to know, from which neighbor scales can I borrow chords, or which chord progression could I jump into?
Makes sense?

My toolkit for composing:

GarageBand, Tonality and Suggester for IOS
BIAB, Logic Pro X and iAudio for OSX
+ www.chorderator.com

Any suggestions, tools or websites that can enlighten me?

Last edited by Peters Garage; 08/03/20 03:54 AM.
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