How Do You Play New Age Music?
New Age music is often associated with meditation and yoga. It has repetitive themes and creates a peaceful uplifting state for the listener. The genre uses both electric and acoustic instruments, often incorporating piano, synthesizer, flutes and acoustic guitar as well as non-western forms of percussion instruments. It is based around simple chord structures, avoids tense-sounding altered chords found in jazz or blues, and focuses on establishing a relaxing mood rather than an emphasis on technique. Choose a key and build a basic chord progression based off of the diatonic major scale as I-V-vi-ii. In the key of C the chords are C-G-Am-Dm. Change the qualities of the chords to fit the New Age genre. Use suspended chords for the major chords and extensions on the minor chords to make the progression Csus2-G7sus4-Am11-Dm9. Exclude the third of major chords for a more open sound. Play the chords on a piano, synthesizer or guitar. Play Csus2 (the notes are C, G, C, D), G7sus4 (the notes
