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Original post by Kazgoroth
Trombone all the way! It's also one of the instruments I play*, great instrument - do you still play?
Not anymore; my sister wanted to learn as well just after I left school, so I gave my trombone to her. I think she's given up though, so I might claim it back some day. But the trombone isn't really a friendly instrument to practice in high density accomondation [smile]. I'll stick to my electronic keyboard which works with headphones.
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Original post by Kylotan
Hmm, you're not going to be able to build much tension around I, IV, and V, because they're fairly neutral and predictable. As an exercise you might look into putting some other chords in there, or at least some suspended chords when in transition from one to the next.
That's true, but I'm only beginning at the moment, and I haven't figured out a good way to string together more complex chord progression yet. Using simple chords such as I, IV, V and vi (and sometimes ii) as a starting point usually helps me get something down that sounds okay, and lets me build a simple melody. Then I can throw in a few more complex chord variants that are mutations of those chords. That process probably limits me to a certain subset of songs, but I've got to start somewhere. I'm still not good at building chord progressions that are based on a minor key, however.