“I saw the sign” by Ace of Base in G
“Complicated” by Avril Lavigne in F
“Stand by Me” by Ben King in A
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler in Ab
“Crocodile Rock” by Elton John in G
“Hero” by Enrique Iglesias in G
“King Of Wishful Thinking” by Go West in C
“Baby” by Justin Bieber in Eb
“Walking in Memphis” by Marc Cohn in C
“The Thin Ice” by Pink Floyd in C
“Poor Little Fool” by Ricky Nelson in C
“Unchained Melody” by Righteous Brothers in Db
“Wonderful World” by Sam Cooke in B
“Every Breath You Take” by The Police in Ab
“I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston in A
“She’s Out Of Her Mind” by Blink-182 in C
“Blank Space” by Taylor Swift in F
"I’ve Just Seen A Face by The Beatles in A
My module 10 practice routine has morphed into a significant amount of time being devoted to making the chord changes of these common chord progressions in time with a drum and snare backing track. Not surprisingly, the challenge is making the change to the F chord - getting there on the beat and having the chord ring out. How proficient should I be at this before moving on to the next module?
As long as you can fret the F chord well with some consistency you are probably good to move on. You don’t need to play it perfectly or change to it quickly but rather just know how and practice it as you want and need while you move forward. The point isn’t to perfect all these techniques and skills at this point, just be exposed to them.
Just think of these progressions as one more way to practice the F chord.
And it might help to know that one of the most common chord progressions is ii V I (Dm, G C), and I think there are other 2 and 3-chord songs that don’t need F.
A drum pattern works with any chord, so most any drummer should be able to play along with whatever chord progression you want to play. Likewise, if the drummer goes first and lays out a beat, any chord progression should work on top of it. Of course, your ear may “hear” a good chord progression that would go with a certain beat, in which case you can just play that.
You can think of the drums as creating a black and white outline of a picture that can be colored in by the chords.
If you practice these 5 chord progressions in the key of G, you will avoid the F chord.
If you practice these 5 chord progressions in both G and C, you will cover every open chord Justin has taught up to this point (except the A ), as well as the majority of the chord changes you are likely to use.
All I can think of is One Day by Matisyahu for the first chord progression, I can’t think of anything else with the other progressions maybe later I can think of one and I’ll add it here.
Most of the beatles songs like let it be and also I hear somewhere over the rainbow as well. I think most of the slow paced rock songs has these patterns with basic changes like hammer-ing on and pull off.
), as well as the majority of the chord changes you are likely to use.