What Are These Disguised Chord Progressions?
Do you recognize these disguised chord progressions?
Good morning. I’m going to play a song and you tell me what the chord progressions are.
(Duane playing song)
That’s one song, here’s another one.
(Duane playing song)
Kind of goofed there in the end.Here’s another one.
(Duane playing song)
And so on.
The chord progression was the 1 chord, the 6 chord, the 2 chord, and the 5 chord. In other words … You’ve done that when you were a kid, I imagine. I certainly did. It’s a common chord progression and it happens a lot in music.
My only point here today is that you should learn chord progressions because if you learn one chord progression well you can apply that chord progression to other songs. In other words, when you see that chord progression or feel it coming you’ve already developed some facility with whatever you’re going to do.
For example, on this song I used a Major 9 chord and I ran it up the keyboard like that. The fact that I can do that or did learn to do that, then I could apply it to, say, “Blue Moon.” See that? Blue Moon. You see the very same thing as I did on the first tune, I can do it on the next tune, and so can you. There’s many different chord progressions but some occur over and over and over again, and that’s probably the most used chord progression other than just 5 to 1. The 5 to 1 chord progression is the most common, of course, but the one I just showed you – 1-6-2-5 – has that in it. 5-1, doesn’t it?
Very simple point but I hope you heed it and look for chord progressions that you can learn to play, and then apply them to other songs when you come to them. That’s it for today. If you enjoy these piano tips come over to playpiano.com and sign up for our free piano tips – because they’re free. We’ll see you then. Bye bye for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnTsbrlLnqk
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