Another video devoted to the Sunny chord progression. Here, we're looking at the Bb7 chord, and examine what scales could be used to improvise over it, as well as its function in the piece. As you can see, there are six bars here with the Bb7 chord, giving you lots of time to familiarise yourself with the sound and scale choices. 1) Am7 and Fmaj7: Both chords are in the key of A minor and therefore you could use the A minor scale for both chords. Similarly, you could try using the A minor Pentatonic scale, with its notes A C D E G, for both chords. 2) Bb7 Let's start with the notes of the arpeggio, those are always going to sound good: Bb D F Ab What about Bb7/9? The 9th would be the C note. C is already in A minor, in the scale as well as in the Am7 and Fmaj7 chords, so that should sound good, too. Giving us: Bb D F Ab C What about the G note? The G note is also contained in the A minor scale and the Am7 chord, so adding G should work as well: Bb D F Ab C G At this point …

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This fun and funky chord progression, here in A minor, contains a minor ii V, with a few little twists. A typical and similar progression in major would be like this: C E7 Am…. The iii chord becomes a dominant V7 chord for the relative minor Am, with the root note dropping five tones from E7 down to Am. Here in Sunny, the same thing happens with Am C7 F whereby the III chord C7 is the V7 to the relative major F, also with the root notes dropping five tones, i.e. from C7 to F. Yet, whereas in the major progression C E7 Am, the key would kinda stay in the key of C Major or A Minor (or A Harmonic Minor). In the minor progression of the track, there is an ambiguity of whether such progression was in fact all in the key of F Major, with Am being the iii chord, basically a iii V7 I progression vs a i III7 VI progression in A Minor. Meaning, you can experiment with either thinking F Major or A minor…. Obviously, during the turnarounds with Bm7b5 E7, Am is the i chord. Hope you e…

This fun and funky chord progression, here in A minor, contains a minor ii V, with a few little twists. A typical and similar progression in major would be like this: C E7 Am…. The iii chord becomes a dominant V7 chord for the relative minor Am, with the root note dropping five tones from E7 down to Am. Here in Sunny, the same thing happens with Am C7 F whereby the III chord C7 is the V7 to the relative major F, also with the root notes dropping five tones, i.e. from C7 to F. Yet, whereas in the major progression C E7 Am, the key would kinda stay in the key of C Major or A Minor (or A Harmonic Minor). In the minor progression of the track, there is an ambiguity of whether such progression was in fact all in the key of F Major, with Am being the iii chord, basically a iii V7 I progression vs a i III7 VI progression in A Minor. Meaning, you can experiment with either thinking F Major or A minor…. Obviously, during the turnarounds with Bm7b5 E7, Am is the i chord. Hope you e…

The song Jerusalema is based on a 1 6 4 5 progression in the key of Db Major with the chords Db Bbm Gb and Ab, whereby each chord is played for two bars. The chords in the second part of this arrangement here are added to create more variety for this jam track. If you want to play along with the guitar, and you don't know how to play these chords, you could use a capo in the first fret and play the following chords instead: C Am F G Once you've learned the chord sequence, you can also jam along to Jerusalema by Master KG. In the key of Db Major, you could use all of these notes in your improvisation: Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C … or put more simply: "you can use all the black keys on the piano, plus the notes C and F" Hope you enjoy this track and please subscribe and ring the bell 🙂

Here is a nice chilled out track with a cool country soul vibe at a comfortable tempo, perfect for experimenting with subdivisions of the beat. Quavers to sextuplets and beyond all sound great with this track. The chords are Fm Eb and Db throughout, which echos what happens in the track 1000 Miles From Georgia by Kidd G. A standard vi V IV progression in Ab Major, or i VII VI in F Minor. Kidd G transforms this simple progression into a great song, check it out and play along 🙂 Please subscribe and ring the bell.

Bastille have based their song Goosebumps on a i iv V III progression in F# Minor to deliver a first class chilled out pop anthem. The cool thing about this progression is that the root notes of each chord drop a fifth to go to the next chord: F# drops 5 steps to B drops 5 to E drops 5 to A. Bastille end the 4 bar progression with a repeat of the E chord, but this time with G# in bass to link back to the F#m. — When thinking of the progression as being in the key of A major, the chord sequence could also be described as vi ii V I. (Upper case numerals for major, and lower case for minor chords.) — To improvise over this progression you can use all the notes of the A major/F# minor scale, as well as all the notes in between 😉 However, you could also experiment with limiting the number of different notes you use.

This fun chord progression, here in A minor, contains a minor ii V, with a few little twists. A typical and similar progression in major would be like this: C E7 Am…. The iii chord becomes a dominant V7 chord for the relative minor Am, with the root notes dropping a five tones from E7 down to Am. Here in Sunny, the same thing happens with Am C7 F… the III chord C7 is V7 to the relative major F, also with the root notes dropping five tones, i.e. from C7 to F. Whereas in the major progression C E7 Am the key would still stay in the family of C major or A minor (A harmonic minor). In the minor progression, there is ambiguity whether such progression was in fact all in the key of F major, with Am being the iii chord, basically a iii V7 I progression vs a i III7 VI progression. So you can experiment with either thinking in F major or A minor. Obviously, during each turnaround Bm7b5 E7, Am is the i chord. Hope you enjoy the track and like, subscribe for more! 🙂

Continuing to explore Bach's Goldberg Variations chord progression, this version here features an uplifting reggae fusion style, which is great for placing notes and phrases on or in between the beats. Hope you enjoy it and please subscribe for more 🙂

A track based on sus2 and sus4 chords that can be used to give the C Minor Pentatonic scale a bit of a workout. Because of the nature of the sus chords and the 10 bar structure, the track seems to never resolve. Hope you enjoy it! 🙂

Johann Sebastian Bach used this chord progression as the basis for his famous Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. In total he composed 30 variations on the basis of these chords. Just like Bach varied style, tempo and time signatures in his variations, here is a slow jig feel in 6/8. This slow tempo is ideal to get to know the chords and how your played notes sound with them. Have fun and subscribe for more! 🙂

Johann Sebastian Bach used this chord progression as the basis for his famous Goldberg Variations, BWV 988. In total he composed 30 variations on the basis of these chords. Hope you enjoy jamming over this track! If you do, please like and subscribe! 🙂

Lydian Augmented is the third mode of a Melodic Minor scale. It sounds beautifully mysterious yet open and optimistic. The track here in a slow rumba flamenco fusion style which gives plenty of room to experiment and find phrases and musical expressions to develop your own individual style. Starting on G, the notes are: G A B C# D# E F# G And played on a G string, the fret numbers would be: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 Hope you enjoy the track and please like and subscribe for more 🙂

Hey, diving into the Melodic Minor modes and here is part 1 devoted to Melodic Minor itself. The notes of the scale are: G A Bb C D E F# G When played on a G string of a stringed instrument, the scale is easy to remember since it uses mostly odd number fret positions: Open string, fret 2, then it's odd numbers 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12. Congratulations! You've just learned to play a Melodic Minor scale in less than 20 seconds. Hope you enjoy improvising over the track and please subscribe and like for more 🙂

Hey, today we're gonna funk things up with a track devoted to the Lydian Dominant mode. Lydian Dominant is the fourth mode of a melodic minor scale. The notes are: G A B C# D E F For string instruments playing on a G string the fret numbers are: 0 2 4 6 7 9 10 12 Again, you can imagine playing all even fret numbers on a G string with the exception of fret 8, which gets replaced by frets 7 and 9. Hope you like the track. Let me know, leave comments and questions perhaps. Enjoy and please subscribe for more!