i like crowhugger's advice.... i love to find chords that i don't even pretend to know the name of... i just experiment and find them... it seems its later when i'm notating or playing it with someone else that i have to pay attention to what the chord is.

therefore the songs i write have wonderful unique and interesting chords... but when i try to play other's songs.... i just play the chords....

someday i will be able to play enough again to adapt my finding of interesting chords to songs i learn of others.

but anyway... i find it fun to make up chords instead of following a structure. i guess when i took music in school i got frustrated. they said to write a melody. i wrote a nice little one. then we had to add chords following all these rules... i aced the test, but couldn't even really hear that nice little melody anymore, even though i followed the chord progression/structure i was provided.

... lorraine