Our progression is a standard I-IV-V in the key of A – which means the chords are A (I), D (IV), and E (V). A classic country technique is to ‘walk up’ to the root note of each chord.

Sometimes chord progressions are referred to by numbers and this can make talking about music sound complicated. It actually just means that chords are built on a certain note of the major scale. You ...

The I chord is known as the Tonic, the IV is called the Subdominant and the V chord is the Dominant. Notice that these three chords are three major chords from the harmonised major scale, but they can ...

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Ever heard of y’allternative music? If you're burnt out on traditional mainstream country music, this subgenre might be worth exploring.

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.

But unlike many songs, that chord progression is disguised in "Kids" with big synth beats. Strip it down to the piano, though, and it's all the same. Naturally, the song got Grammy love. 3.

The reasons that the progression of I, IV, V is so pleasing to the human ear is that those chords are built upon the three most consonant intervals with the tonic: I (1:1) V (3:2) IV (4:3) In fact, ...