The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing ...

This includes more than 60 chord progressions that are divided into three categories. Standard includes basic movements of two and three chords; Four Chords contains, unsurprisingly, 4-chord ...

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 introduce a bit of theory.

If you’re good at music theory, you can probably find all the chords and progressions you need just by using your fingers and a suitable instrument. For a lot of musicians, though, rememberin… ...

Here we’re in the key of C minor. The III7 chord in this key, Eb7 (because Eb is the third degree of the C minor scale), is already pulling back to the im7 chord (Cm7) but we can increase the tension ...