The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing ...

However, whichever keys the original songs are in, they do have their chord progressions – their essential formula – in common. To understand this properly, we need to introduce a bit of theory.

It's very simple to join one chord to the next in the context of a chord progression, and one of the tools in your armoury ...

And while it IS possible to lean on old chord progression favourites (and there are countless 'MIDI packs' that will sell you chords that are proven to work together) remember that they work so ...

A great way to get started writing a song is to use a well-known chord progression. Certain progressions have been used thousands of times throughout the history of recorded music, so there’s no ...