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Guitar
Lesson Five - Introduction to
Chord Progressions.
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?
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:
1)
2)
3)
Chords
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