The Nightfly

Ok, you have used triads, no problem with that, for your next assignment, we are going to enhance those chords with inversions and some 7th chords. I liked the progression, I feel that this is a good material that we can work on.

Your next assignment: and I want you to work more on this, work on this for couple of days. Don't rush it.

- I assume you already know 7th chords and their inversions. I want you to use some inversions and some seventh chords in there. Play around with it and see which chords you can "upgrade" to 7th chords. You can use both minor 7th's and major 7th's. No classical rules apply here! Its all up to you. Unless it sounds too odd. Use your ear as the judge, if it sounds good to you, then it's good !

-Make a plan, is this piece going to be in ABA, or AB ? or something totally different. I suggest we stick with these two. We can consider this progression as A. Write another "contrasting" progression which will be our B. Make this one a little different. Perhaps introduce some accidentals, obviously you haven't use a single one in your current progression. Ok, make it sound different, that's my point.

As I said before, don't rush this, make it in few days, until you are totally confident with it.

EDIT: and again if you get stuck, use this space to contact me.