Blues Rock Progression You’ve heard a Thousand Times

[charjo]

If you enjoy this, you’re a nerd like me. I’m talking to you Michael.
He forgot “Smoke on the Water” and, in honour of Tim Curry, “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again”.

John

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[Michael Krailo]

I’m definitely a theory freak like you so all of this is music to my ears. Love it, now where is the online database of all these songs by progression formula? 🙂

I had to stop and think about the G Bb C progression @6:00.

G major notes: G, A, B, C, D, E, F♯

Parallel minor
G minor notes: G, A, B♭, C, D, E♭, F

Here is a good site that explains it well if anyone is shaking there head at this:

Parallel Scales

Also, it is required by all Active Melody members to pickup their guitar and play every one of these progressions so you can see the relationships in action and not just theory. 🙂

I especially liked the notion of sequencing 1-b3, go up a whole step and 1-b3 again as in Love Shack.

Just the simple A C D progression is so cool. You have the option of sliding that D shape up to the F or not. Very cool.

And yes, the Smoke on the Water immediately comes to mind while messing around with that progression.

And that last point he made about the CAGED chords being the harmonized blues scale was the icing on the theory cake!!! A C D E G

Root note patterns >>> CAGED shapes >>> TRIAD'S. Just put in the work and watch your guitar skills soar.

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