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Boy of Joy
Sep 28, 2001
I thought I was dead. But I think I'm Cleopatra, too.
I took less than a year of piano way back when I was a kid and got bored then, regretting it now. Instead I went on and played trombone for a good 8 years or so, ended up playing a lot of jazz, so improv is not a big deal.

In my adult life, I enjoy writing/producing music, mainly electronic and stuff, but I find a sticking point is intuitively being able to come up with chords and chord progressions. Since the trombone is monophonic I didn't have to worry about coming up with chords. So I figured maybe I should try to take up piano again. Any ideas on how I should approach this? I'm not terribly interested in the performance aspect. The jazz book mentioned in the thread looks good.

It's not that I can't come up with chords and chord progressions by ear, it's just that the process is pretty trial-and-error. I just want to get that intuition!

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