Let's harmoniseIt’s worth noting that the chord progressions used in most pop songs are relatively simple, mostly made up of a cycle of between two and four chords that are diatonic to the song’s key.

The key and the chord progression have been updated in the e-book. 26) “Clocks” – The first chord is Eb major, rather than Eb minor, which makes this an example of Mixolydian mode, not ...

The solo begins over a G major chord, and in bar 1, I play the notes of a G major triad – G, B, D, G – in a syncopated rhythm. While sustaining the G note into bar 2, the chord beneath it switches to ...

You’ll find variations of this progression in pop, R&B and jazz. It usually is very hard to mistake a blues song for a country song, even when both are based on the same three-chord progression.