Writing chord progressions

[prozeyic]

Can anyone give me some advice or link me to some tutorials and stuff on writing chord progressions? Not looking to make something really complex, just want some basic guidelines to follow that will make the process a little faster. Right now I'm just working by ear, basically. Probably for electro or house music. Also could be for some ambient chill PinkiePIeSwear style stuff. Whatever genre that is.

[Captain Ironhelm]

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/57

for starters I suppose

[colortwelve]

Write a bassline first. Just bullshit a completely random bassline in some key. Then fill in the rest of the chord progression on top of it. Of course, you'll need to know enough theory to work with chords, inversions, and function, but that's relatively little material when you get down to it.

And just as a general guideline, I try to make my basslines move by step, thirds, or fifths. Any other interval tends to sound awkward (to me at least).

[Lavender_Harmony]

The only way to speed up the process is to learn music theory. If you don't your music will end up sounding stale and you'll hit writers block very early on.

[prozeyic]

I study a lot of music theory. I'm okay with intervals and key signatures. Just really sketchy on the whole song writing process and coming up with these kinda things.

[CaptainFluffatun]

>Have Kontakt
>Load in library
>Chord script
>Arpeggiator script
>???
>Profit

[Raddons]

I-IV-V

or if you're feeling adventurous

I-V-vi-IV

[SticktheFigure]

I-IV-V

or if you're feeling adventurous

I-V-vi-IV

Let's not forget the ever-so-famous inversion of that second one. You know, the good ol' vi-IV-I-V?

[topitmunkeydog]

Here's a lovely little site that automatically generates chord progressions given constraints:
http://chord-progression-generator.com/
I wouldn't recommend using these progressions verbatim because they prolly sound a bit awkward but they might be helpful to use as a jumping point. So I would just experiment with those.