"It's too simple" is no excuse.

One problem I've been facing whilst attempting my reharmonies is the fact that many songs have too little chords in them for me to easily implement a ruleset.

There are ways around this as I've already discussed, yes, but it's not easy.

I'd like to introduce the 1-6-4-5 progression.  The 1-6-4-5 progression is one of the most commonly used chord progressions in pop music.  It is everywhere.  I can't call my ruleset universal if I can't reharmonize that.

Here is a song that uses the 1-6-4-5 progression extensively.  Not one of my favourite tunes, but it's an example.

Now here's a version by one of my favourite bands (and one of the influences for this project).  It isn't exactly smooth jazz, but I'm going to be dissecting their version of it to see how they got so much COLOUR from a repetitive chord sequence.  Expect a transcription up sometime in the near future.

These guys all studied jazz/music at University and graduated years ago.  I'm not expecting my reharmonizations to be anywhere near the standard theirs are at, but I'm certainly going to take as much influence from them as I can when building my ruleset.

J