i wanted to know if anybody here knew of any sites that
had dance/trance chord progresions i realy dont like the ones in my progresion book im looking for particularly dance and trance not popular music which is what my books are. thanx

hitman

you could use www.musicrobot.com to find midifiles from your favourite dance tunes and analyze the chord tracks.
many times those progressions are based on a single chord that is shifted up and down the keyboard in a parallel fashion.
Kinda hard to play for a trained keyboarder because your fingers always want to fall into the "correct" chord.
Try sampling a minor chord and shift that up and down.
My favourite chord for doing that is a 13th chord. Instant acid jazz!

Many tunes work with one of two schemes.
a)changing chords over a ostinato bassline(one that stays on one root)
b)changing bass root notes underneath a steady chord.

And then there is the most abused (and boring) progression of all times
a minor, F maj7.
I heard too many trance tunes in my life that rely on that simple idea.
And again this is using one of those schemes because the difference between a minor and fmaj is just the root note.
Thats why you can have a ostinato arpeggio on top

of course there are more progression out there but i hope you can find some
inspiration from these

best
Dr.Wu

There isn't any specific dance chord progressions, any chord progression will work with dance music.

there is a rule of thumb with music

the busier or more complex the rhythm elements, the less complex the chord or melody progressions.
think Talking Heads when they got into their poly-rhythm period -- one chord songs for 7 minutes
complex chord/melody improvisations generally take place at a consumable pace. The classic standards were typically 10-20-30 chord songs. Then think of the Kinks first album -- every song 3 chords (barre chords at that)

I think we can also expand that rule to apply to harmonic content. if there's a lot of saws and very rich harmonic content by timbre, it's not as likely to come from progressions. Then dance music is by its nature busy rhythmically. Maybe hooky repeated melody line.

I would be interested if these theories actually hold up in common trance/dance usage.

The only rule here is that there are no rules.