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JgIsles

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  1. Sir, I think you may have just accidentally invalidated Pink Floyd.
  2. I'm of the opinion that you can go anywhere with your chord progression as long as you're leading somewhere. Classical composers, Jazz musicians and a few rock and roll artists as well have all gallantly defied the alleged "rules" of chord progression and been well acclaimed for it. The only really solid rule that as I understand it is "don't just hop around for no reason, go somewhere." So for instance, we're in the key of C and I began with a C and then an Em. (I,iii) The rules say I probably shouldn't go to D (II) and it doesn't sound very sensible if I just pop over to D for a visit and come back to the root. But if I use that (II) as a tonal bridge to hop on up to A (VI), it works quite nicely. I'm probably not making my point very well but in brief, no, no rules.
  3. Chord progression first. I generally write a chord progression and then shamble around the house mutter-singing like a deranged lunatic. Somewhere out of that mutter-singing, a melody and at least some of the lyrics emerge simultaneously. Then I can sit down and edit some more sense into it.
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