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hlandy Just Startin' 3 posts since
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Nov 15, 2009 10:05 PM

Chord Progressions

I just purchased your JM4 Looper.  It does everything I thought it would and so much more.  I'm relatively new at playing the guitar and the looper seemed like a great device to help me practice and have fun doing it.  I was hoping I could use the 'Jam with a Song' function to practice.  It seems like a great practice item because it plays a portion of a song over and over -- forever.  The only problem I am having is not knowing what chords to play with the songs.  Is there a book or paper out there somewhere that could help me out with this?  Something that would possible give chord progressions for each song?  I've used "Band in the Pocket" CD's before and they have chord progressions with them.  Any suggestions?

  • danic Just Startin' 2 posts since
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    Nov 17, 2009 2:07 AM (in response to hlandy)
    Re: Chord Progressions

    I second that question. I've found the JM4 presets list (http://line6.com/community/docs/DOC-4763 - jm4 presets.pdf) which lists the key for all the songs inside the JM4, but the actual chords would save quite a lot of time for those of us who don't easily follow the chord progressions.

     

    Edit: I just realized that after you've loaded a song, the display shows the key (the "bold" area directly under "Songs"), so the pdf linked above is kinda useless Now if only you could also display the chords á là BandInABox. Someone care to write them down and publish? TIA

     

    2nd Edit: An incomplete but helpful chords/tabs overview can be found on Joes excellent site, see http://www.joesjamblog.com/tabs.html

  • shuggieotis Just Startin' 9 posts since
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    Nov 17, 2009 6:10 PM (in response to hlandy)
    Re: Chord Progressions

    I really like the JM4 too.   I use the drum tracks by themselves with students as they learn way faster if they have the time keep and if they have to keep up with something.

  • Line6Hugo Line 6 6,580 posts since
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    Nov 19, 2009 4:19 PM (in response to hlandy)
    RE: Chord Progressions

    As you may already know, we do not have the chord progressions or tab of the songs that are built into the JM4 Looper.  Joe's Jamblog looks to be the closest thing to what you are looking for.

       

      Please submit a feature request for what you are looking for at the following link:

       

      http://line6.com/company/contact/productFeedback/?topic_id=3

       

      Regards,

       

      Line6Hugo

  • Line6Hugo Line 6 6,580 posts since
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    Nov 23, 2009 4:04 PM (in response to hlandy)
    RE: Chord Progressions

    Hello,

       

      It's been a few days since we've heard from you. We're going to assume your question has been answered and close this thread. If you still have questions please feel free to re-open this thread or create a new question with us and we will answer your questions accordingly. Thanks!

       

      Regards,

       

      Line6Hugo

       

    • rojoyinc Just Startin' 12 posts since
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      Nov 23, 2009 7:14 PM (in response to Line6Hugo)
      Re: RE: Chord Progressions

      I never found the stuff in the JM4 to be useful.  I just wanted a looper.

       

      A recent nice progression that I've been playing with it.

       

      Am add9    2

      Fmaj 7     

      Dm7

      Am add 9

      G

       

      Use Am (or Cmaj) scales to solo over -

      • rojoyinc Just Startin' 12 posts since
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        Nov 25, 2009 7:33 AM (in response to hlandy)
        Re: RE: Chord Progressions

        Your so welcome.  Another I like lately (I've been using my guitar port on my laptop and I use Riffworks as the looper...

        I haven't used my JM4 in a long time.

        But another nice progression is.

         

        Bb Maj7

        Bb dom7

        Eb Maj 7

        D aug

        G m7

        C dom7

        F  dom 9

         

        Repeat

         

        Another nice 3 chord is

         

        Em9

        Cmaj7

        Am9

         

        Not really beginner chords (sorry) but if you look them up - their well worth learning as they'll sound so much cooler than basic open chords.

         

        If you want to do really basic stuff....  think of progression in  1-4-5  pattern

         

        works like this

        Scale

        A B C D E F G

        1  2 3  4 5 6  7

         

        Would be a progression of  1-4-5  which would be  A D and E

        To find another just start on another note and start at one again.

         

        C D E F G A B

        1  2 3  4 5  6 7

         

        1-4-5  would be a  C F G   progression.

         

        play these like this...  strum  chords  1 1 1 1 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 5 5 5 5

        repeat

        so could be  C C C C F F F F C C C C G G G G

        or

        A A A A D D D D A A A A E E E E

         

        that's about as easy as it gets.    Use the scale to solo over in the sale of the first chord.   C F G  (solo in C maj scale or easier - C maj pentatonic.

        If doing  Am Dm Em - use A minor pentatonic.

         

        Look in you tube some lessons on the pentatonic boxes (5 of them) really you can do a lot with just box 1.  (especially if you also learn box 2) so you can go between them.   Box  5 - 1 - 2   is very useful using the 2 lowest strings of box 5 - all all 6 strings of box 1 and the highest 3 strings of box 2.

         

        the 1-4-5  chord progression (technically writen as  I IV V  (via roman numerals) is whats known as the blues progression.  If someone says lets JAM - blues in A    - everyone jamming knows   A D E  (as the  I  IV  V )  chords and will all be able to jam together on the fly. typically using 12 bars.

         

        On the JM4 - look up the included track called  THRILL  or something like that - it's  "the thrill is gone" by BB KING. It uses this simple  I  IV  V

        blues progression. And will be the easiest (it's also slow) to solo over.  The title menu will tell you the key it's in.  (I forget) as you can play it in any key...  It might say  "Bb"or something or Might be Am  so solo in what it says...    A minor pentatonic or what ever key the title display says it's in.

         

        If it's still to fast, use the temp/speed features of the JM4 to slow it down to learning tempo...  peck away at the pentatonic (5 note) box 1 while playing the   THRILL (no thrill?) I forget what they call it. (they can't  use the real name (the thrill is gone) for copyright reasons.  So they change up the background track a bit and give it a similar name - so we all really know what it is.

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