Official Music Video – Ride The Progression – Kelly Boesch | 4K

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Growing up, I loved listening to jazz with my dad and his friends. I was always fascinated by the way they talked about the tracks, they had their own distinct “jazz speak,” a whole language dedicated to the subtle, almost hidden shifts in the music. They’d casually call out when a drummer flipped the beat for a few bars, or dissect the unexpected choices a sax player made in a solo. To them, the music was a living, breathing conversation. They didn’t just hear the songs; they saw them happening, treating the changes and grooves like musical paintings unfolding right in the room.

“Ride The Progression” was born out of those memories. I wanted to capture that feeling of tension and release they always talked about. The lyrics borrow their vocabulary; talking in intervals, dropping in blue notes, and waiting for the bass to resolve, to show how life works in much the same way. We all stumble into wrong notes or get thrown off by a skipped heartbeat, but if you lean into the syncopation and just ride the progression, you usually end up exactly where you need to be. I hope you enjoy the track.

The visuals were animated using Pika keyframes (pikaframes). I wanted something subtle with changes to just flow with the music.

Ride The Progression

[Verse 1 ]
I slide through the changes like a hand on the keys
Major seven tension begging for release
Bass line walking slow with a pocket so deep
Got the whole room floating, nobody sleeps
I talk in intervals, fourths and fifths collide
Blue notes in my bloodstream, moonlight in my stride
Every wrong turn swings till it sounds just right
Like a bent note hanging at the edge of night

[Chorus]
Ride that progression
Let it pull me downstream
Half of life is tension
Half of life is release
Notes falling together
Like rain on a tin roof
Every song is a question
Every groove is the truth

[Verse 2- sung in a melodic soft tune]
Got rhythm in my body and a syncopated soul
Every little stumble helps the melody unfold
The drummer skips a heartbeat and everybody grins
That’s where the magic sneaks back in
The sax plays a solo, takin us much higher
While the piano comps behind it, adding fuel to the fire
And the bass keeps talking like an old best friend
Saying, “Nothing really ends, it resolves again”

[Bridge]
We stretch out the meter, we bend the time
Walking on a tightrope, stepping out of line
Every little worry that you dragged through the door
Gets buried in the kick drum shaking the floor

[Final Chorus ]
Ride that progression
Like a river through time
Every chord is a doorway
Every doorway’s alive
Notes falling together
Like stars finding their place
We’re all little melodies
Following the base

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Source: Kelly Boesch AI Art