The chord progression I laid out was played in class yesterday. It was a weird experience and didn't sound as familiar as I had hoped. I didn't realize how different music can sound when I'm not in my own world, with my own hopeless keyboarding skills.

Some classmates seemed to approve of the increasing tension I tried to formulate, whereas others perceived a rather lengthy tension plateau in either chords 2-6 or 3-8. As well I have a much less gradual decrease, sort of a sudden drop. I'm finding it difficult to decide whether to pick it apart totally or keep it mostly the same. I'm finding revisions much more painstaking than initial creation.

In my progression I tried to plan ahead a little and used a common one in all the chords, however, I'm considering removing it from the most tense chord just to give that little extra something for all those perfect pitch people out there. I figured that would allow me something net to play with in the eventual resulting compositions. I also chose not to use register shifts so that I could clearly distinguish dissonance (recall class discussion regarding pitch, dissonance and what is tension?) and because I didn't want to limit my later compositions to certain register formulas. However, I am currently perplexed at how I'll be able to make three separate creations from a simple chord progression. I seem to either have not enough ideas or too many, depending on the moment.