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Home › Forums › Guitar Instructor Doug Marks › Week 14: Question regarding Chord Progressions
Hi Doug, I just want to clarify and ask if the minor and major chord progressions (regardless of the key) follow some kind of formula?
For example:
Major Chord Progression = Major Root – Minor 2nd – Minor 3rd – Major 4th – Major 5th – Minor 6th – Minor 7th/Diminished 7th
Minor Chord Progression = Minor Root – Minor 2nd/Diminished 7th – Major 3rd – Major 4th – Minor 5th – Major 6th – Major 7th
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Ya, you can do that, and you’ll notice that that pattern cycles between the modes because they’re all following the sequence of the diatonic scale. Just don’t confuse what you have listed with the scale intervals though. For instance, the second tone of the C Major scale would be a Major 2nd interval, which is a D note, although the chord itself is a D minor. So instead of including the numbers in your formula, I just like to think of it as, in the case of the Major scale, as Major, minor, minor, Major, Major, minor, diminished. All at the same time knowing that the scale intervals are root, Major 2nd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Perfect 5th, Major 6th, and Major 7th.
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Thanks dude, now I understand 🙂