Hello bill-for my music theory final we are composing a piece of music in any style that uses at least one major, minor, diminished, and augmented chord. I know and can play what each of these chords is, but I'm not sure where to go from here... so I make up a song and then work in whatever chords are not there, or do I start from the chords and make a song out of them? If I could I would just take what the chords feel like to me and how they work together and make a song perfectling meshing all their characteristics to make something new, but I'm not quite that experienced in songwriting yet, so I don't think I'm able to (if it happens like that, though, I will not object!). Suggestions?
if i were you i would find some way of escaping from this exercise. i don't think it's gonna be good for your music. it would be like if you were making a recipe and you were supposed to include an ingredient that starts with every letter. let's just say you're probably gonna end up with things that were not put there for the taste, let's just put it that way