3 Minor key chord progressions you should know

What a great video!

Very nice outro.

Could you PLEASE place a warning before adding some derivative ear torturing muse-shit into videos. It makes me grind my teeth so hard my jaw spasms.

Why do you have an Essex accent are u from Britain?

Holy shit we can expect a video on fiona apple , could we pleaze

Thanks for making this one, it's really interesting to see the mixing of modes in popular music. I think a video about closed loop (i learned them as in the loop instead of on the loop) songs could be good. Stand By Me, What's Goin' On, and You Ain't Goin' Nowhere come to mind.

heyy, i have a doubt. Why do some notes have the flat sign (♭), when they are the same chords without it? (for example, in the last chord progression, ♭VII is G, when VII is G already)

This was great lesson . Thanks

if I understood ♭III I wouldn't need to watch videos like this


make a video on III vs ♭III please


you simply say "C" .. and then you play some weird ♭III chord with 5 notes in it.. that's not a C... a C chord is like "C E G" triad, you are just confusing us who don't know theory... people who know I don't think would need the video

Why is there a "flat" symbol in front of the roman numerals for the III and VI chords?

That Cure cover was godalwul. Copyright or not, it doesn't sound like it at all.

The i VI VII V progression, the second one shown here, is called Andalusian cadence. It is very popular and used extensively in Flamenco music. As noted it mixes the natural and harmonic minor modes

Edit: I have only very recently found your channel and I find it brilliant. :)

Wow the song you play at the end of this is UNREAL

I went from "all pop songs use the same pregressions" to "actually there are more progressions than I can hope to remember" thanks to your videos.
Better start memorizing 😅

Great video as usual.

For anyone just learning how to play piano who thinks this esoteric stuff is helping you. It’s not. Instead of writing i bIII IV bVI you could just say it’s a 6-1-2-4 with a major 2. Much easier for people to understand and translates more easily to other songs with similar progressions.

Like 6 1 2+ 4 gets you to 6154 way faster than translating it to minor, pretending you’re flattening the 3 on A Major, when you’re actually just playing the “6 as minor” in the major key, pretending you’re flattening a 6 of a different scale when you’re really just playing a 4. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Or even worse - I’m playing a flattened 1, flattening the 3, flattening the 6, switching temporarily to Dorian. Nah bro, you played a common major chord progression but played a Major 2. Get over yourself Jazz Hands.

on this day, in the year 2023 I was not ready to see MCR's AOL Live session again, LMAO! I was instantly brought back to another lifetime

minor climb progression is my favorite chord progression

I wish I could understand music theory, but I'm still not getting it. :(

For the last one a good example is Gyöngyhajú lány, a Hungarian classic rock song

I’d love for you to use some Jellyfish songs in your examples if you haven’t. Very underrated band. Just the bridge of Russian Hill is a great example of their knowledge of music theory.

The second is surely my favourite chord progression, love the emotion in it

No Beatles, no Radiohead - is this a first?

Your ending songs are beautiful!

Great artists and examples of great songwriting… except for Green Day.

Learned a thing or two and beautiful piece at the end.

twenty øne piløts AND Muse examples??? HECK YEAH, also love the Bo Burnham inclusion. I was literally thinking of Bliss the moment its chord progression came up lol

amazing!

Funny enough, the first time I kinda heard House of the Rising Sun was... Not actually the song but a "we're trying to be the song but not really" and that was the ending of Meta-Knight's Revenge from Kirby Superstar.
But as I'm humming along, I don't think they share the same chord progression despite the fact that it's based off of House of the Rising Sun... Though they might. I'll have to look into that.

I would really appreciate if you do video about Christopher Larkins music. He is a composer for game Hollow Knight

David, can you pls do a video/note on the progression of La Folia? I'd appreciate it a lot, and maybe some other "ancient" progressions not heard often any more?

Love this! I would like to have seen the "Still got The Blues" progression, which is a full cycle of 5ths (or 4ths, if you prefer) ending with a harmonic minor substitution. It's an ideal practice sequence.

The last progression was interesting because if you change the minor chords to major you have the classic rock mixolydian progression used for the start of Sweet Child of Mine and the start of Welcome to Paradise.

Those are all nice minor chord progressions. What I would like to learn is, if you are using a minor chord progression like one of these in a song's verse, what are the best chord progressions to modulate from these minor progressions to a major chord progression in the chorus, to go from a darker somber mood to a brighter majestic mood. Is that something you could share? Thanks.

See it's funny. Hm. Maybe I have to start at the very start.

When I got done writing my first very goofy little song back in like 1987, I thought, "Well, I can never put these chords in the same order ever again." The concept that the same chord progression could be recycled endlessly was not on my radar. It's probably my lack of perfect pitch, but I simply didn't notice it, and I wasn't knowledgeable enough yet. I was 17 after all.

I had a very rebel view of music theory when I was writing most of my songs in the early 1990s, at that time I wanted nothing more than to prove that V7-I only sounds final because were culturally attuned to perceive it that way. Centuries of composers copycatting each other hammered it into our brains. As I learned more though I did want to put things in my tool box, I heard the Neapolitan sixth chord I had to write something using it. So, I wanted to know the rules, and use them, but also break them. And just for kicks I did once end a song with the full IV, I (6/4), V7, I. To rebel against my rebellion, I suppose.

So. Yes. I've been putting these chord progressions that I learn about through you and 12Tone into the tool box, but I often want to subvert them, know them to avoid them, but then say F it and use them. Recently I was like what if I did the really overdone chord progression but 1. on quarter notes, 2. only did the standard version the first time through, each subsequent time through change at least one chord.

I guess I want to just add to what your saying: learn all these chord progressions, learn all the rules, use them as the tools they are, but sometimes smash the tool box a little, something interesting might come out.

Here's a question. Why is the focus on four chord loops? Are 6 and 8 chord loops so uncommon? Are there songs with no loops?

Sorry, I'm in a deep thoughts, looking back sort of mood.

Keep up the good work.

Huh never really thought about the tonality/progression of the Michael Jackson song "Blood On The Dancefloor", I'm always taken aback by the ridiculously good beat.

I could hear the third progression in Moby's 'Extreme Ways' (the song that introduces the credits in The Bourne Ultimatum).

I don't understand this use of "bIII" roman numeral notation; in classical harmony notation that would mean that the chord is not built on the normal III scale degree, but a semitone lower, which is not the case. …?

I'd like to hear your thoughts about Am - Dm - G - C and its equivalent in other keys.

Does Joe Jackson’s ‘Real Men’ fit any of these chord progressions?

Does anyone else think the piano sounds a little out of tune in this vid?

Why is the III shown as a flat (b)III? Wouldn’t the III be occurring naturally as a III in the context of A minor?

"boomerang" by Serge Gainsbourg uses the same chord progression

Why is there a flat sign on the major third chord?

I always call that first progression the "Stepping Stone" progression, after the Monkees song.

Any video that brings up both "You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison" by MCR and "Isle of Flightless Birds" by TØP deserves my like.

Great videoI think the chord prog for the chorus of Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain" is the same as the last progression example.

your ditties at the end are sometimes better than the crap you reference

I would love to learn about chord progressions in other modes like (but not limited to) lydian or phrygian dominant.

Can I get an explanation of why on, for example the first progression, the III and VI are flat? Dont' quite get that (in general). Isn't the III chord of the A minor scale a Cmajor? Shouldn't it just be III? Why bIII?