The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue ... could be whether you want to work in a major or minor key, depending on the outlook you want to portray.

some in F minor, etc). However, whichever keys the original songs are in, they do have their chord progressions – their essential formula – in common. To understand this properly, we need to ...

One thing’s for sure, if a pop chord progression comprises 4 chords, it’s infinitely more likely to consist of 3 majors and 1 minor, and not vice versa. So I-IV-V is so important because this ...

Melodies, meanwhile, tend to be simple affairs using mainly a handful of notes from the parent scale, dependent on whether the song is in a major or minor key. Let’s create a simple pop/R&B chord ...

However, when harmonised, the notes in the C minor scale produce a different set of chords to the notes in the C major scale. It’s these chords that you can borrow to embellish your major progressions ...

or ‘relative minor’ of Chord I, and this similarity means that it still feels comfortably related to both Chord IV and Chord V. There’s no doubt that the human ear is hooked on this repetitive chord ...

In this lesson, watch as the chordscales for minor ii-V-i progressions are derived from their component 13th chords and then see how the resulting chordscales are used by Miles Davis in his improvised ...

which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that gives Mixolydian licks and chord progressions a bluesier edge than the sometimes overly bright-sounding major ...

As you can see, these are all different names for one specific sound. Once we get into chord progressions and ‘diatonic speak’ such as II-V-I, you may well come across the term ‘tritone ...