Common Chord Progressions

Roger

This is my excuse. I can’t see what I am typing anymore ! :rofl:

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Omy goodness dear Toby, I’m starting a crowdfunding for a new keyboard … or … or … you don’t buy guitar or gear for 2 months and buy 1 and 10 in stock :smile:

I see that this is a lesson related topic so I won’t go into further oftopic,
But for anyone who is going to do music theory it is a good idea to have decent writing materials or a decent keyboard :blush: :smiley:

Greetings and have fun all with the theory course :sunglasses:

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Great share Toby.

If anyone wants to follow that path and have a ready reckoner there is the Circle of Fifths.

Major chords on the outer wheel. Minor chords on the inner wheel. Groups of six diatonic chords in any key cluster together (three major and three minor chords).

Use a movable label system such as shown below.
The major chords are always IV, I, V reading clockwise.
The minor chords are always ii, vi, iii reading clockwise.

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Fear not my friend. When I changed PCs a few years back I did not really like the kbd that arrived with it so the current one is getting very old and tired. Now as I never throw anything useful away, this has been retrieved from the loft. Just needs and extension cable and adapter. Case closed. :rofl:

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@TheMadman_tobyjenner
Hi Toby. Is there any reason why there is not a 1245 progression in your chart or is it just a case that it’s not so common and clearly a chart can’t have everything.

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These are the ones Justin lists in the PMT, so I guess that’s not on his top 10 radar. This was a lift and shift and then I just added the more frequently used Keys or as many as I had the patients to add into the spreadsheet ! :rofl:

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Hi Peeps

With my on going review of Grades 1 and 2, I noticed today that the 5 Common Chord Progressions Justin lists in Grade 2 Module 10 Lesson 10, includes some differences to his old Top Ten list in the Practical Music Theory course - which I may now have to revisit also :scream:

So I have added Justin’s Grade 2 Top 5 to my spreadsheet of which #2 to #4 were not listed in the old PMT (those highlighted blue are the ones in the G2M10 lesson). Again I have highlighted open chords (in yellow) and included the F chord but as I said before, it could be substituted with an easier Fmaj7.

So you now have 13 Common Chord Progressions to play with. Some may consider that an unlucky number but I could always add a Tritone Progression to appease the spirits and keep the metal heads happy. :scream: :metal: :imp:

I’ll update the copy on my Drive (which I shared earlier) later today, as I’m off for a lay down after filling all those new boxes.

:sunglasses:

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