Modes Part 8 - A first look at building modal chord progressions.
Remember how we established all chords associated with each mode in Part 6 but then went on to play over the tonic chord only in Part 7?
Well, having played over just the tonic chord, and kept away from the entire set of chords, then surely now we must be able to pick up our guitars, choose whichever mode takes our fancy, bang about with those chords to hammer out some cool progressions, improvise some exotic sounds and enjoy basking in a warm modal glow!
Right?
Or … could we perhaps take up Justin’s idea of Dice Songwriting, pick out six chords from one of the modal groups assigned to the dice numbers (excluding the beastly diminished), roll the dice, create a chord progression at random and hey presto! Shazam! We will be making magical modal music right?
Surely that is the next step? Isn’t it?
No!
What … what do you mean no! NO!! For goodness sake! Why not? What’s the problem dude?
Sorry folks, but it ain’t all that simple. Or rather, it is simple, but it isn’t simple in that way.