Piano Chord Progressions - Piano Lessons

Piano Lessons.com The #1 Name in Piano Lessons Online Chord Progressions – Nate Bosch [Demo] Hi! I’m Nate Bosch at Piano Lessons.com, today we’re going to talk about chord progressions. First of all let’s define a chord progression, well it’s a series of chords put together in a pattern. So that chord little, chord progression I was playing, that was in the key of F. Now I was playing the F, B flat, a C, B flat, F. Now are based around the notes in the scale. We call this the key of F because I’m building the chord based on the F major scale. [Demo] So the F is the root for the one chord. Now the B flat is built from fourth note of the chord, we call that the B flat major chord or we can call it the four chord. [Demo] The next chord I played was the C major chord or the five chord. So we have the one— [Demo] Four (B flat) [Demo] Five ( C ) [Demo] And then the one. Those three chords; the one, the four and the five in any key are the most popular chords in popular music. Lot of little songs, a lot of great songs are written just around those three chords. Now putting those chords together in a different pattern we I did, the one, four to the five to the four. [Demo] Four, five, four to the one. You can change that around any which way you want you can create [Demo] Same chords again; one, four, five, one. So there we have a chord progression in the key of F. Now, let’s create a whole other chord progression using different chord and then a different key. We’ll pick the key of E, here’s the E major scale. [Demo] And I’m going to start on the root for the E. So [Demo] We’ll go to the two chord, this is the chord built on the second note of the scale which is an F sharp minor chord to the five chord. [Demo] Back to the one, so play that again [Demo] One, two, five, to the one, now I’m going to change it up a little bit go to the sixth chord. So built on the sixth note of the scale, the C sharp to the four to the five and back to the one, so I did one, five, no sorry. Let me go back one, two, five, one, one, to the sixth to the four, five and back to the one. So moving these chords around again there’s a little bit of a different chord progressions on— [Demo] All of those chords built on the E major scale and just moved in different orders can create a different little song. I can use that same key, well starting on that same key and I’ll just use a couple of different chords in that scale. [Demo] To the four [Demo] To the five, to the two [Demo] Five, one, do that again [Demo] One [Demo] Four [Demo] Now what I’m doing there is a suspended chord but that’s for another time and then I go to the two [Demo] To five back to the one and there you have a chord progression.