Chords only

[Jeff Trumpold]

Hi. I’m considering EZ Keys as a songwriting tool. I generally don’t have a lot of piano in my stuff, but would love a tool that would easily let me explore different and unique chord progressions and push my harmonic structures a bit. How would it work for something like this? Is it possible to take a groove/pattern and simplify it down to just the chords so I can hear the progression without all the flourish?

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[Scott Eshleman]

in a nutshell, yes.
you can take any of the grooves from the provided libraries or MIDI expansions you’ve collected
and replace the “style & flourishes” of that groove with a sustained or more basic chord groove, leaving only the chord susquence of the original groove.

and as always, you can embellish and/or alter the chords further with EZKeys’ chord tools.

[Bryan Block]

Hello –
The answer is Yes, and No, and it depends on what you are asking.

No matter how “fancy” the part it, every block you drag into the song window on EZ Keys has the chord names displayed above it, so you can see the progression, so if you like a certain progression, you can do a couple of things. The first one is that the core EZ Keys comes with blocks of just straight chords, so you could just drag over the plain chord blocks and assign them to the chords you liked in the “fancy” bit -basically creating a simple chord progression. With EZ Keys, every chord and block is customizable using the popup chord wheel selector, so doing what you want to do would be pretty easy. But if you are asking if you can take a part and have EZ Keys simplify it FOR you, then, the answer is “no” – it will take a little input on your part, but it wouldn’t be hard to do at all.

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