Common Chord Progressions

Patterns You Will Hear Everywhere Pop music, folk music, jazz, and classical music all use certain chord progressions over and over. These patterns have proven, over centuries, to create satisfying harmonic motion. Learning them gives you instant access to thousands of songs. Once you can play the I-V-vi-IV progression in C major, you can play a meaningful fragment of an..

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