Hi, all.
I have been playing piano/guitar on and off for a few years now. I mainly just find sheet music and play it, however I really want to start writing my own music.
When it comes to theory, I understand chord extensions/inversions, modes and somewhat basic functional harmony. The problem I'm running into is that I don't really know how to construct progressions for specific feelings I'm going for other than happy/sad. All my progressions sound somewhat the same or too pop-ey (not that that's a bad thing. It's just not what I'm going for most of the time). Whenever I go out of this, things just sound messy and all over the place. Discovering modes helped me out for a while but I end up getting into the same rut within them.
A lot of the music I am inspired by use progressions that I have never seen before. How did those composers/writers find that progression? How did they know it was going to work for the emotion/story they were trying to convey?
It feels like I'm missing something here and I honestly don't know what to look up.
Thanks for reading!
Submitted July 26, 2024 at 12:04PM by Speed_dy https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1ecqcl2/how_do_i_make_great_nonconventional_progressions/?utm_source=ifttt