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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