Q: I have a chord progression that goes Gm7add 9 for a bar and a bit, then Gbmin7 to Fm7add9 for the next bar and a bit, then chromatically up again. I then do like a modulation to Cm where I go gm7, Ebmin7/Db, Cmin7add9, and that's a cool jazzy sound and all but it has the same sort of feel as what came before it so I'm asking where I should go harmonically in order to create a completely different sound as well as you do it in ur songs
A: you're just doing chords. and it sounds like you're trying to craft a song out of just chords. this may work, sort of, but, don't be surprised if you can't seem to really get anywhere strong. what i've found, when working, if i ever let 1 of these 3 elements (melody,chord,lyric) get too far ahead of the others, it very quickly gets very empty and the whole thing doesn't know or care where it's going, and hates itself, really. best case, all 3 elements are born at the exact same time. if 1 gets too far ahead, .. and you start to feel lost and confused, .... it's usually because 1 got too far ahead, so you gotta go back and get the whole vehicle involved. this ESPECIALLY becomes true at these junctures of "what happens next". that is exactly the time for the least used element to now have a say. that's how turns are made