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by Jason Hannah on Nov.13, 2009, under Link

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200 Useful chord phrases in C Major

I was looking around on Twitter today for posts about songwriting today, (by the way, if you’re not following me, please do so by clicking the little blue bird at the top right hand corner of this page) and I came across a blog called Paul Nordquist’s Unruly Beast of a Song Blog and I instantly loved it so much that I had to add a link to this site, as well as write this post about one of his articles in particular.

The post that caught my eye was titled “200 Useful Chord Phrases in C Major”. Here’s a little Excerpt from the post

Wherever you need a phrase of music, just drop in one of these chord phrases. (One key tip: Use repetition; that is, use some of the chord phrases more than once. It helps your song hang together.)

By the way, these chord phrases are not random; they’re in a sort of functional order. So don’t just pick from the beginning of the list. Use dice or something to choose at random from the entire list.

C – - -

C Csus4 C Csus4

C – Am -

C Am C Am

Am – - -

C – F C

C Am F C

C E♭ F C

C Dm F C

C D7 Fm C

C Em F C

C G F C

C B♭ F C

C F Dm C

C Em Dm C