Which Chord Comes Next? (Minor Chord Progression Chart) - Music Composition
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- How do you know which chord you could use next? We share our very own minor chord progression chart that will help get you started in figuring out which chord comes next. Musicians often wonder which is the best way to progress from one chord to another. Of course there are many options but there are certainly progressions that don’t work too well. In this music composition lesson you will see an ingenious plan that tables how best to progress from one chord to another. If I’m using a particular chord how do I know which chords are going to follow on best? There are certain logical steps that encourage good chord progression and they have been summarised in this music composition lesson. This chord progression video will introduce you to a chart that shows how chords progress in the most satisfactory way. When you see it you’ll wonder how you lived without it.
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0:00 - Introduction to the minor chord progression chart
2:06 - Exploring the chord chart
5:34 - Using the chord chart
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Thanks. That’s a nice thought. Lots of people tell us kindly that they love the channel so it’s great that you do too. Enjoy.
Scale: HARMONIC MINOR. Great lesson thx!
Thanks for the hint. I was scratching my head at the VIIdim. I was working off my knowledge of a natural minor. Obviously a noob.
Not at all!
@@corey10418 In popular music natural minor seems to be the default.
@@MusicMattersGB Excuse me sir, but it seems like a harmonic minor, what are we missing?
Yes it’s harmonic minor.
I've now watched several of your films and I feel I've learnt a lot. Thanks for your content!
That’s very kind. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more.
Very well laid out video. Many thanks! More people should watch this.
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Thank you! This is a real nice and quick reminder of what I learned in my college years and a nice thing to come back to when I'm stuck! Much appreciated!
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I was searching a chart like this, for ages - thanks a lot!
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Another excellent video from you! But would definitely love to see a tutorial on chord progressions for Natural Minor also. Thanks 🙏
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Awesome and informative. Thanks!
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Super glad I came across your channel! Gem in a haystack, very valuable and thoroughly explained
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Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!
Glad it’s useful
@4:33 you want to play iib after the iv and VI, but you play viib both times! Great video, it is very helpful going through these basic progression possibilities
The progressions are certainly useful and, as you’ve spotted, there are helpful alternatives too! Thanks for your comment.
Thank you very much. 🍀
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These videos are fulll of esoteric knowledge.
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Dear sir. Thank you very much for this video
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Thank you
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this video is incredibly useful
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I'm experimenting with getting back into my 4-part harmony theory because of your videos. So first of all: thank you very much. But I chose a "cantus firmus" from a pop song which happens to be in a minor key and right away, bit off more than I could chew!
🤪 The thing with my chosen melody is that it uses the raised 6th from the melodic minor as the highest note in the melody, and it repeats that note three times in a row. So that makes it weird to try to harmonize over. This flow chart gives me some points of reference that I really need, so again: thank you!
It’s great that you’re back into it
First of all thank you so much for all the life-saving videos. I have one question though, in a minor key, how come the 7th degree is also diminished? In an A minor for example, the 7th is just G major chord. Thank you
Thanks. If you use the harmonic minor scale the 7th in A minor will be G#. Hence the diminished VII
🔥🔥🔥🔥i love your lessons. Should i use this theory when i write a meoldy
It’s certainly useful to think about how melody and harmonic choice/ progression fit together
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Maestro do you have a video like this one but using the chords of the natural minor scale not the harmonic scale?
We will make one
This is amazing could u also do this for Natural minor scale?
It should work well for the natural minor scale.
I don't know but, when you played VIIb Bdim to III Eb Aug, I heard the sound of Moonlight Serenade. I just did!
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Watched some of your video's, they are great! Soon I will become a member. Starting to learn composing electronic music, but I also like to learn classic music. One thing which I don't understand in this video you say the 7th cord is diminished, but in other instruction video's (from other instructors) I learn the 7th cord in a minor scale is a major cord. Also when I google a minor scale it tells the 7th cord is a major cord. Am I missing something?
Thanks
Hi. Thanks for your kind words and we look forward to welcoming you as a Maestro member. I’m using the harmonic minor scale as the reference point here. Chords are about harmony, which is why chords conventionally derive from the harmonic minor scale. Chord Vll in the harmonic minor scale will always be Diminished. It’s also Diminished when using the rising melodic minor scale. In relation to the descending melodic minor scale and to the natural minor scale chord Vll is major so that’s why it will sometimes be described as major.
@@MusicMattersGB yes I was thinking of that later on. It is bit confusing for me at this stage since I am using different sources of tutorials. I am studying electronic dance music and so far they suggest we should use the natural minor scale. Some claim this is often used in electronic dance music. But I am not always sure if what they teach is 100% correct
Yes it can be confusing and there is a large amount of incorrect information out there. Some styles use natural minor; most don’t.
C minor scale triad chords (i, iio, III, iv, v, VI, VIIo) so my question is why is there a b note in the second chord if the c scale is with notes_ 1c, 2 d, 3 eb,4 f, 5 g, 6 ab, 7 bb,1/8 c thank for the video and responding
For harmony basically work in the harmonic minor scale for chords
l C Eb G
ll D F Ab
lll Eb G B
lV F Ab C
V G B D
Vl Ab C Eb
Vll B D F
These combinations are they minor or major? Like where you say C Eb G
There aren't many videos on the rules of harmony on RUclips, thank you. Any good books on harmony?
A pleasure. Lots of books on harmony but we have online help with harmony with our Advanced Theory course, our Counterpoint course and our Keyboard Harmony course. www.mmcourses.co.uk
Here’s what confuses me about the minor diatonic chords… Some people make the seventh cord BDF but others make it BbDF… I understand the B comes from the harmonic minor scale and the Bb comes from the natural minor scale but which one gets used more?? Or do I need to know them both equally well?
BDF is what you have in the harmonic minor of C and that’s generally the default position. BbDF occurs in the natural minor or the descending melodic minor.
Question, chord three augmented is part of the harmonic minor scale, although you did not mention harmonic minor, so my question is, is harmonic minor the default scale when talking about minors? Since this is what's being used and it was not mentioned?
Yes. Harmonic minor is the default position in minor keys. Harmonic is about chords so that’s the reason why. Of course it’s possible to use melodic minor in the harmony at times and some styles naturally harmonise using the natural minor.
Could you please help me to understand tension and release?
We will make a video on that.
Hi, I have a question. In the video, you said that chord 3 in the minor key is augmented. However, in E minor, chord 3 is just G major. Did I mess something up?
In minor keys we usually derive the harmony from the harmonic minor scale. Therefore chord lll is GBD#
Do you have any advice on learning how to write Rennaisance modal polyphony like Tallis or Palestrina?
It’s about being happy writing counterpoint and using the modes. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk including details of our online courses and of our exciting Maestros programme.
@@MusicMattersGB thank you. I will definitely look into the courses
Ok. Enjoy!
Which chord follows best for dominant seventh?
I or VI are the best resolutions
Is it intentional that there is no IV-V association in this flowchart? I know you say a few times that this is not exhaustive, but it's notable that you don't include it? Thanks!
Good point
Gareth, I’ve seen this as well in minor scales:
i minor
II diminished
III Major
IV minor
V minor
VI Major
VII Major
Sorry, I read some things further that you were referring to the Harmonic minor.
Sure. After chord l there are always two possibilities for each chord. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk including details of our online courses and of our exciting Maestros programme.
Could you please make a video like this about the natural minor keys?
Ok. Will put in on the list.
@@MusicMattersGB really thank you
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Greetings...What minor scale are you referencing to ? A Natural minor scale consist of 1-4-5 being minor chords....3-6-7 Major chords, and (2) being diminished..
The harmonic minor scale is generally used for chords/ harmony - hence the name. That’s what we’re using here.
Thank you for the wonderful video. I just have one question, how exactly were you able to find and map these progressions? Is there music theory behind it or is all by ear?
It’s partly by ear but also relates to chord hierarchy eg I is the most important chord, followed by V followed by IV.
@@MusicMattersGBThank you. Also, how would chord inversions affect the chord hierarchy and which chord "should" come next?
Inversions are a slightly different story. Basically music works best with a mixture of inversions.
@@MusicMattersGB Thank you for the information. Is there a video on this channel that can explain in detail how inversions would play into the whole chord hierarchy?
We have plenty of harmony videos that include inversions where you can see and hear the reasons for using them.
I’m so confused, isn’t viib in C minor Bb D and F instead of B D F
The b is putting the VII in first inversion. Use the harmonic minor scale so the chord is BDF with D in the bass for the first inversion
Sorry if I'm asking a dumb question but aren't the III and VII chords in a (natural) minor key just normal major chords instead of the mentioned augmented and diminished chords respectively? As far as my music theory goes, I thought only the II chord in a natural minor is an awkward (diminished) chord. Big thanks for the video though, there is quite a lot of information on major chord progressions all over the internet but not so much about minor chord progressions.
Thanks for your message. I’m working in the Harmonic Minor scale as we tend to use it for writing harmony. In the Harmonic Minor scale l and lV are minor, V and Vl are major, lll is augmented, ll and Vll are diminished.
Minor keys (at least in classical styles) aren't really in one minor scale. They tend to use elements from natural, melodic, and harmonic minor depending on the context, chord function, etc.
I'd argue the way these videos say only harmonic minor for harmony isn't 100% true in real minor-keymusic, especially with III, but also VII when it moves to III (vii° is pretty much always diminished going to V or i though). If I see a III in a real minor-key piece, it's almost always a major chord, except in a few rare cases like Bach's BWV 847 fugue.
That’s very fair. I simply use the harmonic minor as a standard starting point for minor key harmony but yes, be on the lookout for melodic and natural minor.
love the "In this FILM" intro! lol
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@@MusicMattersGB your awesome man! BTW I play arabic music and we have about 8 scales and 4 of them are identical to Western scales and the other 4 have quarter tones in the scales so it feels very different.
However I always wondered to a Western ear whenever you hear a quarter note in the middle of a scale passing by and forth through it - Does your brain register than as out of pitch or akward or strange or no comment or what exactly?
Also keep in mind that all the other notes are very similar to a western scale so when passing through them they will generate lets say if in a scale called Bayati has an almost perfect minor scale but the 2nd and 6th are quarter tones - so how do you percieve these quarter notes? thanks !
Fascinating. Yes I’ve encountered music that uses quarter tones from various traditions and the ear soon tunes into them. It’s great that we have so many scale traditions.
When you say B is it mean flat?
It means first inversion, i.e. the third of the chord is in the bass.
Yes Mark is correct, thanks. A 'b' chord means that it is in first inversion, so the third of the chord is in the bass.
What the meaning of the chord 7b?
Chord Vll in first inversion.
Can you go backwards? And can't IV go to V?
Best to follow the arrows forwards. Yes, lV can go to V.
@@MusicMattersGB While you of course say that the mapped possibilities aren't the only ones, I'm still bemused that IV->V doesn't get an arrow. When you demonstrated VI moving on to IV, my ear insisted on the next chord after that being V, maybe even with a nice long dominant pedal where the harmony shifts to Ic or even IIIb and back.
It could have an arrow
why III is augmented? You can actually play normal major chord cant you? In a minor for excample C-E-G?
In a minor key lll is augmented in the harmonic minor scale, which is the most commonly used minor for harmony. You can of course make it major by using the natural minor or the descending melodic minor.
@@MusicMattersGB Yes got it. Thanks a lot. Your videos are very helpful a very well done. :)
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You say that
1 4 minor
5 6 major
2 7 dim
3 aug
Everything I've ever read says
1 4 5 min
3 6 7 maj
2 dim
I did some searching on Google and can't find anything that matches with what you said. What am I missing?
When we’re thinking about chords in minor keys we use the harmonic minor scale because harmonic is about harmony/ chords. Therefore this is how it works in A minor and the pattern would be the same in any minor key. The scale is ABCDEFG#A so the chords work out as
I ACE (minor)
II BDF (diminished)
III CEG# (augmented)
IV DFA (minor)
V EG#B (major)
VI FAC (major)
VII G#BD (diminished)
The I IV V minor and III VI VII major with II diminished applies in the Natural Minor scale.
Hope that helps.
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That cleared everything up for me. Thank you very much
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@@MusicMattersGB Several comments here indicate that the posters have assumed natural minor. Certainly in rock and pop music the natural minor is the popular choice. Harmonic minor is used especially in certain subgenres of 'metal,' Most rock guitar players learn the natural minor and solo in natural minor or minor pentatonic scales. I'm assuming that this accounts for part of the confusion.
When you say the key of C minor, I assume that means natural minor, but this is harmonic minor. Can you say the key of C harmonic minor? I've never heard it. Otherwise how do you distinguish which minor scale you are using?
You’re right that I’m referring to C harmonic minor because most harmony is derived from the harmonic minor scale. In reality pieces often mix harmonic and melodic minor scales.
@@MusicMattersGB Thanks Gareth. So you wouldn't say you were in the key of C harmonic minor, even if the chords were derived from it?
You would simply identify it as the key of C minor to keep open the possible use of any form of the minor scale.
@@MusicMattersGB Thanks for clarifying 😀
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How can chord vi go to chord v ?...that's against the rule of harmonic progression ...chord vi can go to iv or ii
It’s perfectly possible for VI to go to V but it’s all about how you do it eg avoiding parallel movement.
@@MusicMattersGB so what about the harmonic progression flow chart? There is a video by DrB music theory titled harmonic progressions wherein he mentions that the movement of chord vi is only best suitable to a iv or ii chord
As I say it’s all about how you do it. VI to V can be effective but it needs handling with care
What about I - IV - I. ?
Perfectly possible
What does the b mean on a chord?
First inversion chord.
a is root position
b is first inversion
c is second inversion
@@MusicMattersGB Cool. Thanks. I used to know that but forgot. It's been a long time.
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Could make a nice computer program for this
Absolutely
Sometimes short melodies do not require more than two chords. These tend to be a normal major or minor chord and the other a septime chord. Is there a mistake in this thought?
Not particularly a mistake. It depends on the musical context.
Music Matters thank you. I have another thought to share with you looking your kind comment: round melody lines block me to take the phrase further and expand it. I notice though if i cut the final two three or so notes, so the melody line does not conclude, it is far easier to take the melody further. I think the longer musical sentence i can write the closer i get to compose a piece instead of a song.
That’s a helpful thought.
Would you look at one of my songs with just two chords? It is in classical style not pop. It is called Italian Dance.
II°b or not II°b
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When you say “B” I’m assuming you are talking about a flat symbol. Nevertheless, overall very informative video 👍
In relation to chords
a is root position
b is first inversion
c is second inversion
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