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chris mood
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03/08/2002 5:31 pm
Sherif...What your referring to is known as "back-cycling", like Bardsley said it's usually done using the cycle of 5ths, but I'm sure 4th's would also work.
What you do is pick a chord (we'll say C just to keep things simple). Now instead of going directly to the C chord in the progression you would approach it from a 5th away. Ex; G C
Now you can take this sequence as far back as you wish.
Ex; D G C or Ex; A D G C or Ex; F# B E A D G C
You can mess around with the tonalities of the chords to make it more interesting, but if you make them all Dominant 7th chords you can't go wrong, then resolve to the C major.