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How to better understand cord progressions? (lemmy.ca)
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Hi all, I'm in the beginning steps of learning guitar. hands are very broken in, chords sound good, I know a few from 1st to 5th but I wanted a better understand of the progressions.

if it better to follow c, d , e, e# etc.. or c, g, a? or would it depend on the music? I'm focusing heavy on bluegrass. Doc Watson is a big focus for my end style, or Billy strings.

i currently practice/play about 4 hours a day 7 days a week. (a lot I know) my focus is flat picking and finger style mostly rather then traditional strumming.

does any.one have and good guides or books I should read up on for how to do good proper cord progressions? even a simple info graphic that is easily understandable for a beginner?

I'm focusing mostly right now on chord runs. C is memorized and working on getting some others that can meld with the c run.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Instead of thinking of everything in terms of C, it's common for musicians to use "scale degrees" for individual notes or Roman Numerals for chords. That helps to generlize music theory without confusing the different key notes.

for example A natural minor scale degrees:

a = 1

b = 2

c = (flat) 3

d = 4

e = 5

f = (flat) 6

g = (flat) 7

A natural minor chord roman numerals:

Am = i

B dim = ii (dim)

C = III

Dm = iv

Em = v

F = VI

G = VII

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