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I'm gonna teach you a really simple chord progression the 6 flat 6 augmented 1 second inversion sharp 4 half diminished progression _
Hear me out.
This is really simple, and it's really cool.
Let me show you what it sounds like here's
Fuyu no hi, which means winter days from the anime K-On
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[F#m] Itazura na [F] egao ga
_ [A] tokemo [D#] niatte
_ [D] demo [N] hoho
The names of the chords might be a little bit complicated, but the progression itself is based on a really simple idea
so in the key of A this chord progression would be F sharp minor F augmented A over E and
_ D sharp minor 7 flat 5 or D sharp half diminished again
Complicated chord names
_ Really simple.
Let's take a look at this F sharp minor is made up of three notes
Okay, F sharp A and C sharp now in this chord progression.
What we're really doing is
taking this F sharp minor chord and
leaving the A and C sharp in and
Bringing the bass note down a semitone with each chord change
So to get from F sharp minor to F augmented all we do is take this F sharp minor chord and bring the F sharp
Down to F an augmented chord is just a major chord with the fifth raised a semitone
So if F major is F a C
Then F augmented would be F a C sharp
They're not that common
But you'll find them in places next we move this F down another semitone to E and we have E a C sharp
And this is an A major chord in second inversion
I'll explain inversions in depth in another video
But what second inversion means is that the fifth of the chord is in the bass?
So in the case of a major the fifth of the chord is E and we have E in the bass
And just for shorthand, we would call this a or E
Lastly we bring this E down another semitone to D sharp and we're left with D sharp a C sharp
Which is a D sharp half diminished chord or an a D sharp minor 7 flat 5
Now the third of the chord of the court the the note that makes it minor
_ Is not always present the way some people play this chord
Just playing it with these three notes like this you're leaving out the third
But from the context we can infer that it's a a half diminished chord
So to sum it up you take your F sharp minor chord
You leave the two notes on top and you just bring the bass note down a semitone with each chord change
This progression works on a really simple concept called pedal tones
Pedal tones are notes that you just leave constant throughout chord changes
So in this chord progression a and C sharp are two pedal tones
And they're just left constant throughout the chord progression pedal tones are really good for anchoring your [G#] progressions together
Even if you've got a bunch of out-of-key notes if you've got some pedal tones in there
They can serve as kind of a glue to hold your progression together
This is also a really common chord progression
You might have heard it in the ending theme from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis
_ [A#] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [B] _
_ _ [D#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [A#] _ Who to pen from K on is another song that uses this [E] progression
In _ [C#m] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ this case it's in the key of E major so the progression is C sharp minor C augmented E over B a
sharp minor 7 flat 5 or in this case, it's
F sharp 7 and I'm not gonna explain how that works
All you need to know is that a sharp minor 7 flat 5 and F sharp 7 are practically the same chord
This is a really common chord progression.
I mean even the Beatles used it
Actually, I think the Beatles are the ones who brought this progression to popularity now as to where you would use this progression
I think it sounds best when used to kind of wrap up a section
So I would use it to lead into a new section the sharp 4 minor 7 flat 5 at the end of the progression
sounds really good leading into a
4 chord or a 2 chord and from here you can go on into a cadence which I've explained those in another video
And I'll link it.
It should should it should be somewhere around here.
So great chord progression
It seems really complicated, but it's really simple when you realize that it's all based on these two pedal tones
So have fun with that
Tell me if there's any songs that you've heard that you might have heard this progression in I'll see you guys next week and Merry Christmas
This [D] week's album of the week is [C#m] the K on [F#m] original soundtrack [D] entirely composed and produced [C#m] by [F#] Hajime Hyakuku
[F#m] He's one of my favorite [C#m] composers and one of my main [F#m] influences.
It's definitely [G] worth a listen
Especially [E] if you're a bit further along with music theory and you [D] want some more complicated [C#m] stuff to [F#m] study
This soundtrack [D] is definitely for you
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