Saturday Songwriting: After Cigarettes

Here’s a follow up to last week’s progression (called a line cliché) which changed from C to Cmaj7 to C7, (and so forth). The same thing can be done with a minor chord, and it sounds just as cool. Maybe cooler. The names of the chords get a little funky in this one, but the principle is exactly the same; simply lower a note one fret for each change. It’s easier to see than to describe, which is why there’s a little video talking through a couple different examples of this change. 

The Prompt:

Here’s a link to Martha Haversham’s Art

The Musical Idea:

Here’s a downloadable pdf of the worksheet above:

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