2-5 Walkup

[TDiesel]

I noticed something while practicing the other day that I thought might help someone as it helped me.  Here goes:

You know in a major scale the 2 and 3 are usually minor chords and the 4 and 5 major.  So, if your in the key of D, a 2-5 walkup might look like this:

E/DGB
F#/EAC#
G/GBD
A/AC#E

Well, this song I practiced does a 2-5 walkup but it goes E, F#, G, Ab, then A.  Well on the Ab (or b5), I discovered that you can play a 2 major chord in your right hand over the b5 bass, so the above walkup would go like this:

E/DGB - I
F#/EAC# - just
G/GBD - want
AbD/AbBE - to
A/ADF# - thank
A/GBC#E - you
D/F#AD - Lord

Thanks for letting me share this with you all.

[T-Block]

TDiesel wrote:

Well, this song I practiced does a 2-5 walkup but it goes E, F#, G, Ab, then A. Well on the Ab (or b5), I discovered that you can play a 2 major chord in your right hand over the b5 bass, so the above walkup would go like this:

E/DGB - I
F#/EAC# - just
G/GBD - want
AbD/AbBE - to
A/ADF# - thank
A/GBC#E - you
D/F#AD - Lord

That's good, but I'm going to make one small correction/suggestion for you.  Since you are in the Key of D, which is a sharp key, and you are going up the keyboard, rename that b5 to a #4.  Here's how I would play it:

E / G-B-D I
F# / E-A-C# - just
G / G-B-D - want
G# / G#-B-E - to
E /
A / A-D-F# - thank
A / G-A-D-E - you
A / G-A-C#-E (slide D to C#)
D / F#-A-D - Lord

Again, good job, keep it up!!!

[TDiesel]

Thanks for the correction and encouragement, T-Block.

[lilMsKiki]

This progression is simple enough.  I ran it a few times. Thanks TDiesel and T-block. I like both progressions equally