I can make any progression I want with these 7 chords. Those are the chords in my available “chord alphabet” that I have in C major. Here are the notes in the C major scale: CĪnd here are the 7 basic chords you can create just using the notes from this scale: C So if I’m writing a song in the key of C major, I’ll use chords made up of the notes from the C major scale. The notes in the key (the scale) are put together to build that key’s chords. Then you can intentionally create amazing emotional landscapes in your own songs!įirst up, chords in a progression work together because they’re in the same key. So don’t panic.īut it does help to understand what’s going on. Many chord progressions will be super familiar to you.Īs citizens of the 21st century, you will have absorbed many of these from contemporary music, without even being aware of it. Guitars, piano, and synths rule supreme here. Because here’s the thing – there aren’t many instruments that actually play chords (i.e., two or more notes at once). So being able to use a chordal instrument, like a guitar or piano, is a powerful songwriting tool. But a song can work with even a single chord. You can have as many chords as you like or work with just two – a progression has to have at least two. It can help create the melody or give context to how the melody makes us feel. More importantly they want chords that feel good…or sad…or angry, tense, moody, sexy, whatever!Īs songwriters, the chords you use and the way they’re put together is important. Songwriters want to put chords together that sound good. A chord progression is just that – the pattern of chords in songs you play or write. Like most of music, chords and their progressions come in patterns. The chords you use, and the order you play them in make up the harmony of a song.
A chord progression is the order chords are played, one after another, in a song or a piece of music.
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