Introduction to the Circle Progression

The cir­cle pro­gres­sion is a pow­er­ful and often used pro­gres­sion that you can har­ness to use in your own music. In a cir­cle pro­gres­sion the root of the chords con­tin­u­ally descends by a per­fect fifth or ascends by a per­fect fourth. How fourths and fifths are related is illus­trated well by the cir­cle of fifths. In chord num­ber talk... »