[MUSIC PLAYING]
In this video, we're going to talk about two very common chord progressions, I,
IV, V--
[PLAYING CHORDS]
--and I, V, IV.
[PLAYING CHORDS]
I'm sure there's about 100 songs that just
came to mind when I played those two chord progressions.
But let's break it down a little bit.
So just like a major scale that has 1,
[PLAYING NOTE]
2,
[PLAYING NOTE]
3,
[PLAYING NOTE]
4,
[PLAYING NOTE]
5,
[PLAYING NOTE]
6,
[PLAYING NOTE]
7,
[PLAYING NOTES]
--and back to 1.
We can use those numbers and match them to notes and play chords.
So the I chord--
[PLAYING NOTE]
--in the key of G, is G.
[PLAYING CHORD]
If we count to four, G is 1.
[PLAYING NOTE]
A is 2.
[PLAYING NOTE]
B is 3.
[PLAYING NOTE]
C is 4.
[PLAYING CHORD]
So you've got I.
[PLAYING CHORD]
IV.
[PLAYING CHORD]
Four plus one is five.
So if C is 4,
[PLAYING NOTE]
D is 5.
[PLAYING NOTE]
[PLAYING CHORD]
So here we go.
We have G, which is I--
[PLAYING CHORD]
C, which is IV--
[PLAYING CHORD]
And D, which is V.
[PLAYING CHORD]
So I'm playing open chords, which means they're chords that use open strings.
[PLAYING CHORD]
I--
[PLAYING CHORD]
IV--
[PLAYING CHORD]
V. Now I'm just going to play the roots, so we have I--
[PLAYING NOTE]
IV--
[PLAYING NOTE]
V.
[PLAYING NOTE]
[PLAYING CHORDS]
Now I'm going to play I, IV, V using bar chords.
So open chords use open strings.
[PLAYING CHORD]
And with bar chords, you usually bar several strings with your first finger.
[PLAYING CHORD]
It's almost like a capo, and the good thing about bar chords
is you can move them all around the fretboard, because you're not
playing any open strings.
[PLAYING CHORDS]
Playing I, IV, V with bar chords, I play G on the third fret of the E string.
[PLAYING CHORD]
I play C on the third fret of the A string.
[PLAYING CHORD]
And I play D on the fifth fret of the A string.
[PLAYING CHORDS]
Another popular chord progression is I, V, IV.
So we reverse the order of the C chord and the D chord, so it would go I--
[PLAYING CHORD]
V, which is D--
[PLAYING CHORD]
And IV, just C.
[PLAYING CHORD]
So this is with open chords, I, V, IV.
[PLAYING CHORDS]
I'll play the same thing with bar chords,
using G with the root on the sixth string, third fret, G.
[PLAYING CHORD]
D, with the root on the A string, fifth fret.
[PLAYING CHORD]
And C, with the root on the A string, third fret.
[PLAYING CHORDS]
See if you can find two songs that use each chord progression.
[PLAYING CHORDS]