If you’ve dug into rock songs and chord progressions for any length of time, you’ll know that many of them are exactly the same.
Most genres of music are defined by their most commonly used chord progressions, so it shouldn’t be surprising to us that there are a select few chord sequences in rock that get used over and over again. Timing, melody and vocal lines add most of the variation and complexity we might hear in a given song. Those elements cover the bass line and chord progressions, making the finished product sound more complex than it actually is.
But if you take all that stuff out, what you’re left with - a raw chord progression - is usually pretty basic. This is especially true in today’s hard rock.
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Once you start to recognize these progressions you can memorize and document them, then use them as a resource for songwriting and coming up with riffs in the future.
Since chord progressions don’t offer you as much opportunity for creativity, it’s better to learn the most typical ones then reuse them as you go.
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Often played in drop-D (in the key of D major), the progression has a steep emotional appeal with a driving tonic (D) and subdominant (G) .
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Like #1, this progression is often played in drop D, taking advantage of the low open D note via heavy power chords.
Open chords are a pretty popular variation as well, like the way Collective Soul sometimes plays Shine live with an acoustic guitar.
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In addition to being a popular post-grunge progression, G-C-D shows up a lot in country, bluegrass and pop. I was always told that if you could play G-C-D you could play a lot of songs.
The progression is in the key of G and can be written with the first, fourth and fifth of the G major scale: I - IV - V.
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If you switch out the D with a B, you get more of a bluesy sounding progression while keeping the D adds a nice major lift.
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Most of the time this progression is played in drop D to get that low root note, though it can easily be played in standard as well.
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The half step (minor second interval) between those two notes creates a dark, minor sound quality that works really well with heavier music.
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So, while you can find them everywhere, these particular chords sequences do show up in hard rock fairly often. If that’s you gig (or you want it to be) you should learn them as a baseline knowledge block.
Sure, you’ll use other progressions and variations of the ones we’ve seen here, but if you can start with topics that give you the most usability and application, it’ll make future learning a lot easier.
Find out what other chords you can work in and how you can vary these progressions to make them sound better and fit in with your own playing habits or song writing technique.
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In the same manner, if you want to make it a little more bluesy, you can add the F# in between the F and G.
The more you’re able to understand basic chord progression structures, the more you can improvise and add root notes to those progressions.
In this case, everything is in the key of G and the only note that moves is the interval on the second string.
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When your chord progression allows for this (say if you’re going from a G to a C) it’s a pretty easy transition to make.
We’re practicing the act of moving our power chord from the sixth string to the fifth string. It’s not fancy but, worth getting familiar with.
We’re moving between the G note on the sixth string and the C note on the fifth string, except this time we’re adding some flare into the mix with several additional intervals in between each root note.
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In exercise #5 we are playing through each note in the shape of power chords at the fifth and seventh frets. Working through these arpeggios helps with finger placement and speeding up chord changes.
This happens all at once when you’re playing the chord while the arpeggiated version allows us to focus on placing each note one at a time.
In this case you’re playing the exact same chord but, you’re able to stay at the third fret, which is a more favorable scenario since timing and accuracy are going to be easier when you don’t have to change your fret position.
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In many progressions you’ll need to jump frets to switch power chords, so it pays to have that process broken in and comfortable.
We’ll go through some movements that incorporate different frets and strings, mostly the fifth and sixth strings since those are where the root notes of your power chords will usually be.
Yet, you can maintain that act of sliding up the fretboard by moving your hand’s position to the fifth string and the sliding up to catch the root note at the 10th fret. Sliding like this is a much easier way to navigate the fretboard with power chords.
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Remember, we’re just trying to break in our power chords by getting used to the typical movements involved with progressing through them.
The chord progression jumps between four and two frets at a time, while
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