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Introduction to the Circle Progression

By oneoverphi

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... »

Introduction to the Circle of Fifths

By oneoverphi

One may be per­plexed when first con­fronted with the cir­cle of fifths. To the unini­ti­ated it seems to be a strange musi­cal div­ina­tion tool. A spe­cialised chart that tells you when the notes are in har­mony. Well that’s not far off. The cir­cle of fifths is a visu­al­i­sa­tion of under­ly­ing key struc­tures in our musi­cal system. Let us start... »

A Chord Transposition Chart

By oneoverphi

I’ve made up a lit­tle chart for you to help in con­vert­ing songs from one key to another. Right click and Save-Image-As… to grab it. Print it out, keep it in your song­writ­ing note­book. Cheers. »

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