• Yes you can! Play a top-charting pop song with just 4 chords!

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    I’m off to support my grandma as she has surgery today in Long Beach but I wanted to post this short lesson before I leave.

    I just posted a mega 33-minute video so this lesson will just give you an abbreviated version of the video. What I really encourage you to do is stop what you’re doing and head over to view the entire lesson. Dozens of comments have already come in about it since i posted it last night (…don’t forget to leave me one as well!)

    The tutorial teaches you how to play a popular song with just 4 chords! And they’re all seventh chords too (major, dominant).

    I’ll use my new piano tool I announced yesterday to show you the chords below. But visit the 33-minute video to get the full scoop!

    Here’s the four chords…

    Dmin7

    G7

    Cmaj7

    Fmaj7

    Notice the stepwise motion between tones. That’s what makes it sound so good!

    This is what we call a 2-5-1-4 chord progression.

    “2-5-1-4?”

    “huh?”

    Don’t worry. It’s simple. The number just come from the major scale:

    C major

    Just number each tone of the scale:

    C D E F G A B C
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7

    The “2nd” tone is D.
    The “5th” tone is G.
    The “1st” tone is obviously C.
    The “4th” tone is F.

    If you look at the root of the progression, it’s moving from D to G to C to F. Thus, a “2-5-1-4” progression.

    Check out the 33-minute video lesson for details! I hope you like it! :-)

    Until next time —

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    Hi, I'm Jermaine Griggs, founder of this site. We teach people how to express themselves through the language of music. Just as you talk and listen freely, music can be enjoyed and played in the same way... if you know the rules of the "language!" I started this site at 17 years old in August 2000 and more than a decade later, we've helped literally millions of musicians along the way. Enjoy!




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