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Help Me Spice up My Cheesy Country Song #778856 10/14/23 04:13 PM Songwriting
Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 71 BC, Canada Warren P OP Enthusiast
OP Warren P Enthusiast Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 71 BC, Canada	Here's a ballad/slow-country chord progression that feels like it resolves to D currently, whatever key it says here. Chords wise, How can I make this one spicier without leaving the world of country ballads? [Apparently attaching sgu files here isn't permitted?] Last edited by Warren P; 10/14/23 04:15 PM. BIAB Mac 2024 Mac Studio 2022, M1 Max, OS Ventura 13.6

Re: Help Me Spice up My Cheesy Country Song Warren P #778865 10/14/23 05:42 PM Songwriting
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DrDan Veteran Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 11,855 Wauconda	Here is your Country Ballad Em Harmonized Diatonic Scale which you are using: Em -F#dim - G - Am - Bm - C - D. You do apparently already have a major/minor substituion with the use of the A which adds a bit of spice. Otherwise, Pretty much the "Cowboy Chords". You could extend the 7th to each of the triads for : Em7 - F#m7b5 - GM7 - Am7-Bmin7 - CM7 - D7. I would say this change would make the chords "prettier". Better suited for a ballad. Or you could adjust the chords to a E Dorian b5 Scaler for " Mysterious, Dark and Unstable feel". Em -Fm - G - Ab aug - B dim - C - D dim. Is that spicy? Perhaps we have to add extensions to the chords to get a more jazz feel. Maybe that is what you should look at for "spicy". Em11 - F#m11,b5,b9 - Gmaj11 - Am11 - Bm11b9 - Cmaj9#11 - D11 Final Tour - Not with a Bang but with a wimper!

Re: Help Me Spice up My Cheesy Country Song Warren P #778867 10/14/23 05:57 PM Songwriting
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OP Warren P Enthusiast Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 71 BC, Canada	I love those ideas. Especially E Dorian flat 5. To begin to have melodic ideas in E Dorian Flat 5 I should probably sit here and play that scale on my piano and then I will hear the melodic line following that. I think by spicy I more mean dark and unstable, rather than more Jazzy. Last edited by Warren P; 10/14/23 05:59 PM. BIAB Mac 2024 Mac Studio 2022, M1 Max, OS Ventura 13.6

Re: Help Me Spice up My Cheesy Country Song Warren P #779089 10/16/23 05:20 PM Songwriting
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DrDan Veteran Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 11,855 Wauconda	Good choice - dark and melancholy. Let me help you start. Final Tour - Not with a Bang but with a wimper!

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