Let’s create a simple pop/R&B chord progression using triads. Step 1: You can make a major chord in any key by using a specific formula based on the intervals between the notes in the chord. First, we ...

When you use a scale, say, C major, you are playing ‘in the key of C’. The word ‘diatonic’ simply means ‘within a key’, so a diatonic chord progression is a set of chords made up of notes from within ...

Bars 1-4 We kick things off with an arpeggio figure based around the chords of A minor and F Major, extended to highlight the scale’s stronger intervals, giving the progression a rich mood and ...

This bright but unusual sounding mode became popular among shredders after Joe Satriani and Steve Vai used it in the 80s. Here, Stuart Ryan explains what gives the Lydian mode its signature sound ...

D major E minor F# diminished Hopefully this pattern is now clear. Step 2 – Learn The Common Chord Progression There are a few very common chord progressions, particularly dependent on genre and ...

In this lesson, I’d like to discuss playing over what’s known as a I - VI - II - V (“one-six-two-five”) chord progression, which is common in a variety of musical styles, from country to ...

Hook Theory is a song database, and after analyzing 1,300 popular songs, looking at the chord progressions in each, it spit back some pretty cool visualizations.

In this case, we never actually hear the I chord in the song, and the progression merely lingers between the V and the bV (the Ab13), eventually moving down to a chord built on the 4th scale ...

Chordscales are an essential component of improvisation and major ii-V-I progressions make up most of the chords to any given standard tune. Together, these two elements constitute the bulk of what ...