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Pick Your Chords

Seven chords belong to every key, and any three of them will work together. Choose a key, choose three, put them in an order and add a bass line. That is a progression, and it is the floor the next two steps stand on.

  • 7 to choose from
  • 3 is enough
  • no wrong answer
Build a progression9 steps

Seven chords belong to every key, and any three of them work together.

Nothing here has a correct answer. You choose, you listen, and what you leave behind goes on to the next two lessons.

Nothing yetpress play and follow along
C3C4C5
Build a progression
C4C5

What you end up with

Four bars that loop, in a key you picked, with a bass note under each chord. You can change any of it later, and the next step keeps whatever you leave here.

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