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Guitar Lesson Five -
Introduction to Chord Progressions.
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When you listen to one of your favorite songs you become aware to the
fact that it is built up of notes and chords that are changing and causing the song to evolve in a way that is
pleasing to the ear. The question that I want to look at today is: why do some chords sound good together and
others sound absolutely terrible? Acoustic guitar lessons or electric guitar lessons the theory of chord
progression is the same.
To answer this, we need to look at root notes as they are the base that chords are built upon. If we take the
notes of a scale and number them from 1 to 8, you will find movements between notes 1, 4 and 5 consistently sound
better and stronger than between any other number. Let's take a look at a scale (for learning purposes we will
use the C Major Scale):
It might be a good idea to get your guitar out at this point and just have a play around
with the notes in the above scale so you can hear what I mean about strong movement between numbers 1, 4 and 5.
Also, play around with some of the other numbers to see what some weaker movements sound like.
So, now that we have established the above fact, let's use it in some chord
progressions.
A turnaround progression is a sequence of chords that can be continually
repeated due to strong sounding chord movement between the ending and starting chords. In the following
turnaround progression we use the F chord (F being 4 in the C major scale) to get back to the
starting chord C (C being 1 in the C major scale):
Try playing the above chord progression using a strum of your own. If you don't know the
chords, they are shown at the bottom of this page - you will hear that the progression sounds good and repeats
itself through a strong chord movement.
Here are some more turnaround progressions for you to
practice:
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3)
Chords
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