Here are 4 very common chord progressions used in many songs

[6stringer Pete]

I … VI … IV… V
E .. C#m .. A .. B

G .. Em .. C .. D

A .. F#m .. D .. E

C .. Am.. F .. G

The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete

It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete

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[charjo]

Hi Pete,
Sounds like every song from the late 50’s-early 60’s. I think it’s important to start having a vocabulary of chord progressions just like a vocabulary of licks. Great idea.
John

[Duffy P]

I think of those as one chord progression. And yes, it’s jut about every doo wop song ever done, from Come Go With Me, to Blue Moon, to Heart nod Soul. Next step is to do a simple substitution for the VI chord, and it gives you I vi ii V7. That C am dm G7. Those four chords are to Jazz standards what the 12 bar blues is to Blues.

[Don D.]

Thanks for all of that! Cornell Dupree referred to them as the “ice cream changes,” which are mentioned in this Wikipedia article, but qualified as though that wasn’t a widespread use. I think it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50s_progression

Don D.

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