Step 12: If you're still not happy with your chords one thing you can do to 'smooth out' the chord changes, is to try inverted versions, which feature the same notes but move notes at the top or ...

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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… ...

Thanks to its wide use in the style, this sequence is often associated with jazz. That’s not important, though – you can apply it to other styles. We love how the progression recycles itself so that ...

This is followed by the chords Eb7/Bb to D7/A, both with the 5th in the bass, which creates a warm sound. D7/A is the VI (six) chord, and I approached it from a half step, or one fret, above.

Hook Theory is a song database, and after analyzing 1,300 popular songs, looking at the chord progressions in each, it spit back some pretty cool visualizations.

And if you count some of the other variations where the progression starts at a different chord, it takes the total up to 39 songs. Swift has also used a similar progression — the I-V-ii-IV ...

Sometimes that is sufficient, of course, but we have space for five chords here and we want to improve, rather than rest on our laurels! You’ll notice each major 7 chord has its own ‘EQ’ due ...

This is followed by the chords Eb7/Bb to D7/A, both with the 5th in the bass, which creates a warm sound. D7/A is the VI (six) chord, and I approached it from a half step, or one fret, above.