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 Year 10 MusicCHORD PROGRESSIONS

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WHAT? CHORD? PROGRESSION?

CHORD

PROGRESSION

The chord (3 notes sounded together)changes/progress through a number of other chords

The changes are made to emphasize thekey (?major/?minor) of the music

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Scale and Chord

 A chord can be built on any note of thescale… Lets use the C major Key/Scale 

Take C major for example

SCALE C D E F G A B C

C (+3) E F G A B C D E

H (+5) G C B C D E F G

ODegree C 2 3 F G 6 7 8

R RomanNumeral

I II III IV V VI VII

D Mood              

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Check out the Smiley!  SCALE D E

 A B C

C (+3) F G C D E

H (+5) C B E F G

O Degree 2 3 6 7 8

R  

RomanNumeral

II III VI VII

D Mood

       

Chord 1, 4, 5 (C, F, G) are the most commonly used chordsANY GENRE, ANY PERIOD

Knowing how to use the 1,4,5 chord progression, you are

guaranteed to be able to play at least 90% of the songs heard

on the radio.

~~~NICE~~~ 

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CHORD PROGRESSION C-F-G/1-4-5

Let’s play through these songs, which areconstructed using the C-F-G (1-4-5)

C - F - G - G

LA BAMBA

C - F - C - G THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT

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Music History C-F-G/1-4-5

Baroque Period (C600-C7G0)

Handel wrote ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ using C-F-G

C F C

Hal-le-lu-jah play through F times, then

C F-G C

Hal-le-lu------jah

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Music History C-F-G/1-4-5

Classical Period (C7G0-C820)

Haydn’s Surprise Symphony 

Mozart’s Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy 

Work in small groups to figure out the C-F-G progressions 

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Music History C-F-G/1-4-5

Romantic Period

Johann Strauss’ Blue Danube 

Try Offenbach’s Orpheus in Underworld, itdoesn’t start on chord C, but all it uses isthe C-F-G chords… see below: 

G-C-F-C-G-C-G-G G-C-F-C-G-C-G-C

C-F-G-C C-F-G-C

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Music History C-F-G/1-4-5

20th Century

John Williams- Star Wars Intro 

C-F-C-F-C-F-G  Somewhere Over the Rainbow 

C-G-F-C-F-C-G-C 

Even the NZ NATIONAL ANTHEM….  C-F-C-G-C-F-C-C-F-G- C… 

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 YOUR TURN C-F-G/1-4-5

In small groups of F-G, choose 2 songsfrom the following set list, work out thechords on keyboard/guitar, write the

progression down so everyone in thegroup can play them

The groups will need to perform one of 

the songs to the class at the end of thisperiod… so either one person sing, or youcan all sing to save the solo

effort/embarrassment… 

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C-F-G/1-4-5 Song Selection

 Amazing Grace Blowing in the Wind Waltzing Matilda

Supercaligradillisticexpialidocious You are my Sunshine Maroon G-Sunday Morning 

The Exponents- Why Does Love do this to me  Midnight Youth- All On Our Own (chorus)