Any of my fellow musicians ever use chromatic chord progressions.

[88keys]

I've been toying around with them on the garage band app and they seem to make for some very interesting music.

I came up with this which follows G, Bm, F, Am/Esus4. There are a few other chords in there very briefly but those are the basic ones.

The piano lead for the body of the song practically wrote itself.

https://soundcloud.com/chlysm/flight-of-fantasy-complete

 

[z1ggy]

Lots of people use them to spice up a song. The most recent song I've been learning is Alicia Keys, "Ain't Got You" and she uses a chromatic passing in one place to give that verse some character.

 

[brianmanahan]

nah, i never really got into them. i love ragtime, but anything jazzier than that begins to not make sense in my head.