Music Theory question

[Nimble]

Ok. so here goes:

so i'm trying to make up a good chord progression for myself,right? so i try,and this is what i have so far;

C,Em,Edim,F,??,??,??,??

if you notice,the bass note of each chord slowly descends(in second reversals,at least). the thing is,i don't know where to go from F >< i was thinking logically about Fm,but that only flats the III,which is Ab in this case. so my question is; where do i go from F?

[midimachine]

At 5/25/11 09:25 PM, NimblekidX wrote: Ok. so here goes:

so i'm trying to make up a good chord progression for myself,right? so i try,and this is what i have so far;

C,Em,Edim,F,??,??,??,??

if you notice,the bass note of each chord slowly descends(in second reversals,at least). the thing is,i don't know where to go from F >< i was thinking logically about Fm,but that only flats the III,which is Ab in this case. so my question is; where do i go from F?

I just tried C,Em,Edim,A7,F,G,C and then E to start the next progression on the Am. but you could also use C7 to move into a new progression starting on F. This is assuming you're working in the main key of C major.

The progression I've got there is fun but maybe too cliche? Depends how you play it.

[Gario]

At 5/25/11 09:25 PM, NimblekidX wrote: Ok. so here goes:

so i'm trying to make up a good chord progression for myself,right? so i try,and this is what i have so far;

C,Em,Edim,F,??,??,??,??

if you notice,the bass note of each chord slowly descends(in second reversals,at least). the thing is,i don't know where to go from F >< i was thinking logically about Fm,but that only flats the III,which is Ab in this case. so my question is; where do i go from F?

You're trying to continue the descending bassline? Fm will work for that bassline, those if you want to get fancy you could make AbM work, as well (though if you're a counterpoint nut watch out for the parallel fifths that could arise). Either way, the Ab is what you want if you need the bassline to continue (I assume the bass is C, B, Bb, A...) - from the Ab it's easy to have something like C (g in bass), DM(7) (F# in bass) Gsusp - G back to C. That's a pretty clean progression that has a chromatic bassline.

Of course there's other ways to achieve the bassline you want, so you should continue to experiment.

[Gario]

Sorry for the double post, but I also wanted to mention that from DM7 you could move to G7 (F in bass) to C (E in bass) if you want the chromaticism to keep moving down rather than resolve. Just a quick thought.

[Chris-V2]

D maj/F# , A min 7, D dim 7, G b9 sounds pretty good to me!