Well-known INSTRUMENTALS with ONE chord-progression for jams etc.

bigjon

Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer - ||Dm . . . |. . . . |Bb . C . |Dm . . . ||

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock - ||Bb . . . |Eb . . . ||

Bucket

Maggot Brain?

not_the_dj

Green Onions  

Not sure about the original but we played F, Ab, Bb

Helps if you have a keyboard player of course. 

monquixote

The Chicken by Jaco Pastorius / James Brown - Bb7 x 8 | Eb7 x 2 | D7 x 1 | G7 x 1 | C7 x 4 |

Green Onions - 12 Bar in F

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock - Ab

bigjon

monquixote said:

The Chicken by Jaco Pastorius / James Brown - Bb7 x 4 | Eb7 x 2 | D7 x 1 | G7 x 2 | C7 x 4 |

It's G7 x 1, the last of the C7 x 4 bars is really a F11, and there's an extra Bb7 x4 at the end as well as at the beginning. Also, it's a bit long to teach the other players at a jam in the 30 seconds you have available before the audience gets bored.

bigjon

monquixote said:

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock - Ab

Already added but it's in Bb I think, and toggles to the IV chord (an Eb) every other bar

bigjon

not_the_dj said:

Green Onions  

Not sure about the original but we played F, Ab, Bb

Helps if you have a keyboard player of course. 

Doesn't qualify as changes chord progression round a 12-bar

monquixote

bigjon said:

monquixote said:

The Chicken by Jaco Pastorius / James Brown - Bb7 x 4 | Eb7 x 2 | D7 x 1 | G7 x 2 | C7 x 4 |

It's G7 x 1, the last of the C7 x 4 bars is really a F11, and there's an extra Bb7 x4 at the end as well as at the beginning. Also, it's a bit long to teach the other players at a jam in the 30 seconds you have available before the audience gets bored.

But other than that it's fine right?

That's what I get for using the internet rather than working it out. Not sure about the F11 though. I've certainly never played that. 

bigjon

monquixote said:

Green Onions - 12 Bar in F

But has internal chord progression for each chord of the 12bar, so doesn't qualify. Also, 12-bars should probably have their own discussion. I had a 5-page thread on musicradar of pop-songs that were really 12-bars in disguise, so I'll wait to see if any of the MR content can be rescued before I start that one again.

bigjon

monquixote said:

bigjon said:

monquixote said:

The Chicken by Jaco Pastorius / James Brown - Bb7 x 4 | Eb7 x 2 | D7 x 1 | G7 x 2 | C7 x 4 |

It's G7 x 1, the last of the C7 x 4 bars is really a F11, and there's an extra Bb7 x4 at the end as well as at the beginning. Also, it's a bit long to teach the other players at a jam in the 30 seconds you have available before the audience gets bored.

But other than that it's fine right?

I lolled IRL :-)

bigjon

monquixote said: Not sure about the F11 though. I've certainly never played that. 

It's the bit where everyone goes down a Bbminor pentatonic in unison Ba dum, bam, bam, ba dum etc so the bass player isn't playing the F root note that's strongly implied as a V-chord link from the C7 (the II chord) to the Bb (the one chord) in a classic II-V-I progression. The notes of the Bb minor pentatonic over an F7 base imply a chord of F11 (strictly speaking, F11#9b13 if I'm being pedantic and OCD, which of course I never am) ;-)

monquixote

bigjon;3683" said:

It's the bit where everyone goes down a Bbminor pentatonic in unison Ba dum, bam, bam, ba dum etc so the bass player isn't playing the F root note that's strongly implied as a V-chord link from the C7 (the II chord) to the Bb (the one chord) in a classic II-V-I progression. The notes of the Bb minor pentatonic over an F7 base imply a chord of F11 (strictly speaking, F11#9b13 if I'm being pedantic and OCD, which of course I never am) ;-)

I think you may be over thinking it

hywelg

Something like Cocaine by Clapton, just keep playing the E5 and D5. effectively no changes, but plenty going on.

Also the main riff  ¦E7---¦--D A¦ in Take Me To The River as seen here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQJoWUw7ro

Lots of scope for E major blues, E minor blues, crossover, etc etc.

And this 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0NAofXeieM

¦ Am  - F -¦ D - G - ¦ Am - F - ¦ D - - - ¦

is nice to Jam over. D dorian except over the D when they key changes to D major, adds a bit of tension, nicely resolved if you hit the F# on the last bar, avoid it on the first time through.

snakemanStoo

What about 'Wipeout'?

bertie

what's a one chord progression ?  

bigjon

bertie said:

what's a one chord progression ?  

Good point, have now hyphenated chord-progression in the title

hywelg

snakemanStoo said:

What about 'Wipeout'?

12bar.

Band rehearsal tonight turned into a jam as bass player and singer were missing.

Jammed over White Room    ¦D - G/C - ¦ G/B - Bb C¦
Shadow Play (Rory)     ¦Dm - Bb - ¦C - - -¦

In addition to those I mentioned above

bertie

ok,  whats a "chord progression"  as opposed to 'a bunch of chords'   (serious question)  is it a choon where the same "series" of chords are played over and over ad infinitum........as opposed ot a choon with a more "complex" structure

ChristophEar

bertie said:

ok,  whats a "chord progression"  as opposed to 'a bunch of chords'   (serious question)  is it a choon where the same "series" of chords are played over and over ad infinitum........as opposed ot a choon with a more "complex" structure

A chord progression is just a series of chords in a certain order. Often songs can be broken down into a small number of progressions, e.g. one that's used for all the verses, one that's used for all the choruses etc.

Most songs will use a few different progressions, but some just have the same sequence of chords again and again - which is what this thread's about. HTH

nickp

brother louis by hot chocolate, or alternatively covered by the choirboys amongst others

Am, Dm and the other chords (probably F & G) which I've forgotten which is strange as I play the rhythm throughout the song while the t'other guitarist does the widdling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcG1l6cCwY

nickp

and the "bore me to tears" lets stick/stay together by brian ferry etc - just blues but played in an an uninteresting fashion