6 Essential Piano Chord Progressions - Piano Lessons (Pianote)

[Music] hey everyone jordan libel with piano here this lesson is on six essential chord progressions that you must know they're really popular to use in a lot of pop songs and jazz songs and they're also a great way to come up with cool ideas for your own so let's get started first chord progression that we're going to look at is the 6 4 1 5 progression so if we're in the key of c and we have c as our one chord our sixth chord is going to be based off the sixth note in the scale so one two three four five six so that is a now we're using the uh the key signature of c so we're only playing the white note so that means that a is going to be an a minor this is actually a minor sounding progression so we go to the sixth chord and then we go down to the four chord which is going to be f and then we go up to the one chord which again that's c and then to the five chord which is g so the chord progression sounds like this so it's a really beautiful progression that's used in a ton of music in a lot of different capacities i'll just go over really quickly uh how we get those chords and how why we number them as they are so remember we're basing this all off the key of c that is our one chord right here so the first chord in the progression is the minor six which one two three four five six so that's a [Music] the second chord is the four so again if we go back to c we count up four notes one two three four so that's f [Music] and then the next chord in the progression is the one which is obviously c and then the final chord in the progression is the v chord which is g so count up five notes one two three four five and then the progression repeats itself and now if you know chord inversions there's plenty of ways to re-voice these chords to make it smoother you can start off in a and then you can do f and second inversion and then do the c in pardon me f in first inversion here then do c in second inversion and then g back in root position and then just move up one chord position to get back to your a [Music] all right so the next chord progression we're going to be looking at is the 1 5 6 4 progression so again let's take that in the key of c we have our one chord which is c and then we have our five chord which you remember is going to be g i'm just voicing this with a first inversion here and then we go up to the six chord which is a minor and then down to the four chord which is f so again we're just using the same chords actually from that first chord progression but we're reordering them and it kind of changes the flavor so we have one to the five to the six to the four to the five to the six to the four the next chord progression that we're looking at is the two five one progression this is really popular in a lot of jazz music and if you're ever looking to get an easy way to find that jazzy sound uh try out the two five one so um this chord we'll take it in this chord progression we're going to take in c and our first chord is based off the second note in the scale so just take your c triad and move everything up one note in the major scale and we come up with a d minor chord here and then we have a five chord next which we remember is g and then we land back down on the one so in its simplest form the 251 is the 251 played in c is d minor g major c major but one thing that jazz is really good at is adding seventh chords into your chord progressions to give it some more color so we're gonna make a seventh we're gonna add a seventh or pardon me a fourth note um on every chord that we're making here and and it'll change the the character of the progression so let's make a d minor seven and then we're going to go up to make a g7 and then we're gonna go down to the one chord to make a c major seven [Music] and that changes the character of the progression and if you get into chord inversions you can voice it in a much more smooth way so we can start off with our d minor seven chord and then if we want to play a g7 as efficiently as possible all we have to do is take these two top notes here a and c and move them down one white key each so a and c now become g and b so there's our d minor seven our g7 and now if we want to make it this g7 into our one chord which is c major seven we take our bottom two notes which is d and f and make them c and e so now the progression sounds like this do the next progression that we're going to look at is the flat 7 4 1 progression so this one's a little unique because it has a flat note it's got an accidental thrown in there so let's find what the flat seven is in c major so we're gonna start off in c and we're gonna count up seven notes so one two three four five six seven but now because it's a flat seven we are going to lower this note by one key so our seventh now becomes b flat and then we have the iv chord which we remember the iv chord in c is going to be f and then the one which is c so going back to that flat seven we are making a major triad based off of b flat so the notes are going to be b flat d f and then the four chord f a c and then one c e g this is a really great progression uh to use the pentatonic scale on or the mixolydian mode on if you guys know modes a little bit it's just a really fun progression to kind of do all right so the next chord progression that we're looking at is another minor chord progression this one is the minor 1 flat 7 flat 6 5 progression so i'll explain that a little more clearly because i know it's confusing here the first chord we're going to take this in the key of c minor so the first chord is our minor one chord there's c minor here then we're going to go down to the flat seven so that's just one full tone down from c to get to b flat then we're going to make a major triad off of b flat and then we're going to take this whole thing and move it down one semitone to make a major triad off of a flat which is our flat six chord and then we're going to land on g major which is our major five chord so minor one major flat seven major flat six major five so and the final chord progression that we're going to look at is the one flat 3 4 progression this is another just really fun one to use so we're going to start off on the major one chord which is c major we're going to bump up a minor third interval so we're taking our c major triad but our next chord is actually gonna be based off of the minor three so one two three there's your minor third interval and then we're gonna make an e-flat major triad and that's our flat three chord and then our iv chord is going to be f again and then one and this is just a really cool progression to use for improv and there's a lot of cool music that uses this kind of progression i find it really pushes the chords and the melodies forward a lot [Music] to the flat three to the four then back to the one all right so that's six chord progressions that i like to use for my own music and you can find it in a lot of popular music as well try them out on all the keys that you know and when you're listening to music just on the radio see if you can pick out some of these progressions they find their way into a lot of different songs have fun practicing them if you want to learn more about the piano check out pianote.com we've got tons of awesome lessons to teach you there and hope to see you there [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 06 2017