


If you need a refresher on how Roman numerals work in music you can check out our chord progressions starter guide to get up to speed. In some places I'll be writing the chords using Roman numerals instead of their letter names. In this article I’ll go through the most popular chord progressions to know in music.

If you understand how the most common ones work, you’ll have a head start for creating your own-and you’ll know how to play a lot of songs! So many songs are based on the same common chord progressions. Chord progressions are the skeleton that give your songs their basic outline.Ĭhoosing the chords you’ll use and arranging them into satisfying progressions is one the most important jobs when writing a song.īut creating new chord progressions is difficult if you don’t know a handful of basic ones to get your ideas flowing.
