Your favorite chord progresssion.

[Bridog888]

My band really likes to jam with one guitarist playing some chord progressions, and the other guitarist doing some blues/rock solo improvisation over the chords. What is your favorite chord progression, I don't care if you made it up, got it off a song, whatever, I just want to know.
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[John O'Carroll]

Used to alternate jamming over these chords with my co-lead guitarist. Nothing special but we found it a little more interesting than the ever present I IV V.

Key of E major (I think - theory mavens please enlighten me if I'm wrong):

E-------G#m7-------A--------F#m7--B
(back to E)

(F#m7 and B same timing as each of the 1st three chords - eight count for each)
and then we'd throw this in as a "turnaround"

A--------E--------G#m7---------A---F#m7-B
(A-F#m7-B timing = A-A-A-A-F#m7-F#m7-B-B)
(again eight counts for each)

I hope this makes some kind of sense.
Don't know your musical tastes but we were essentially a southern rock/blues band and "borrowed" these chords from other songs we covered.

[This message has been edited by John O'Carroll (edited 07-12-2000).]

[AtomicMassUnit]

John's is oddly one of mine too. the resolutions in the G#m to A is great. You can also take that same progression and replace the F#m7 with an F#7 for a bluesier feel. another great one is Bm A G A. or A, C#m7, Bm7, E. nice topic.

[ekstasis16]

Along metal lines, I really like this one:

A5----F5----G5----Emaj(first inversion on the 4th fret).

It uses both regular and harmonic minor, giving a melodic metal sound. Royal Hunt uses it a lot

One I came up with is this:

E----B----F#--------Gm-A----E----Bsus2----F#

Each chord is played one measure long except the first F# which is almost 2 measures with the Gm rounding it out leading into the A chord. What's nice is you start in E major, but end up in F# major. It's not completely diatonic.

[Raskolnikov]

Hey, this comes from one of my songs, but I don't care if you guys jam on it- and I'm tabbing the chords, cause it'll make more sense that way:

A---G---B?--E7
x---x---x---0
5---3---3---3
6---4---2---1
7---5---2---2
0---x---2---0
5---3---x---0

the whole thing works out to be 3 measures, with the E7 being the longest change. It's an up tempo number and I use alot of muting to create a percussive feel when changing chords. As you might imagine, an A blues scale works well with this. And it's called "Phone Calls to Doom" by the way.

[This message has been edited by Raskolnikov (edited 07-13-2000).]

[ekstasis16]

This is from Metallica's version of Dianmond Head's "The Prince"


B5----G5----D5----F#5


If you play the full chords, it turns into harmonic minor very easily.


Bm----G----D----F#