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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Want to resolve and move to the tonic or the dominant of the key. What is different is the quality of the chords.When spelling out the minor chords, keep the key in mind. Listen for resolutions and progressions that bring movement to your song.The Top 3 Chords in Minor ProgressionsYou will find out quickly that many of the favorite major chord progressions are mirrored by popular minor chord progressions. Just like progressions in major scales, those in minor scales focus primarily on moving between three chords: the 1, 4 and 5, represented by numerals as I, IV, and V.As we learned in the first part of this tutorial on Minor Scale Basics, the 5 (a.k.a. “dominant”, a.k.a. V in numerals) chord in a minor key can be the major version (V) or minor (v).Listen to the audio example below. In the first audio sample, the progression includes the minor 5 chord, or an E minor chord (v). Feel free to follow along on your instrument with the audios below.Now, listen to the second audio sample. The third chord in the following clip takes the raised 7th from the harmonic minor scale, making the V chord an E major chord. Listen for the differences in the quality between the V chords played in the first clip and the second, as the E minor chord becomes an E major chord:When Resolution is Not ResolvedRemember that in most forms of Western music and most common chord progressions, you will be moving to resolve to the dominant or tonic. For example, in the key of A minor, you would be trying to resolve back to the A or the E. In the key of D minor, you would want to resolve back to the D or the A. In most cases, you will be resolving back to the tonic (the first note of the scale), but ending with the dominant is common in melodies meant to end on a suspenseful note – keep that in mind as you play around with common chord progressions.1. The i–iv–v Chord ProgressionWhile you may write other chords in,
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