I Put Augmented Chords Into 5 Popular Progressions

We're all looking for the Holy Grail, that core progression that's so interesting and unique that it'll make everyone want to hear your song, but if you look hard enough you'll know that, like the Holy Grail, this isn't. It doesn't exist, so it's time to take a different approach. What if you took some of the most common tired

progressions

and gave them new life? Well, in this video I'm going to do just that. I will introduce you to my secret weapon, the

augmented

cord. I'll also reveal five

popular

progressions

and show you how to unfold the

augmented

chord to transform familiar sequences.

To start, let's get to know the augmented chord. Augmented

chords

are written in notation with a plus symbol next to the chord letter. You can also see them written. With org or sharp five augmented

chords

are really simple to construct, you take a major chord and raise the fifth note a half step or semitone. This note is also known as an augmented fifth, giving its name to the chord, for example, the C major chord has the notes C and G, therefore, C augmented contains the notes C and G sharp, you can hear the unstable sounds and strange chords that have augmented chords, are neither major nor minor and have a strange clumsiness because of this, are most often used as passing chords that guide the listener somewhere else do not occur naturally in dionic major or minor keys as such , are rarely found in classical music and are not common in pop and rock; however, you are more likely to find them in jazz.

An interesting feature of augmented chords is that they cannot be inverted. Inverting a major chord involves playing the third or fifth note as the lowest note or root note instead of the first note. If you take the augmented C chord you heard earlier with the note ce and gsh, you can try two inversions with e. as the lowest note you get for example Shar and C this is an augmented e chord, if you use G G sharp as the lowest note you get G sharp c and e which is an augmented G sharp chord so there are actually only four sets of notes that create augmented chords these notes are always two full steps or four semitones apart from each other this symmetry defines the augmented chord also worth KN that minor chords cannot have an augmented or sharp fifth they simply become firsts Major chord inversions, for example, C minor has the notes C E flat and G if you raise the fifth by a semitone you will get C E flat and A flat This is a first inversion A flat major chord If you understand the augmented chord then you can start to Alter your core progressions to add tension and interest but where can you find these

popular

core progressions?

I've created a free guide just for you with six popular progressions. If you go to Major keyes.com, you can download your free copy today. The link is also in the description. Let's start with The first progression on the list is arguably the most popular major chord progression, 1564, but it has also become a joke and a cliché, as the Axis of Awesome video demonstrated, because it is used in a lot of songs, so let's implement the increased progression. chord to give it new life in the major keys, if you play the fifth chord as an augmented chord it generates a bluesy tension which can be pleasant, this is because the augmented sharp fifth note of the chord is the flat third note in the chord correspondent. scale that introduces the key blue note of the blue major scale.

You can try this in a 12-bar blues progression. Here it is at 1564, sharing a bar with the standard five chord. This is in the key of C major with C major chords. The G major G augmented A minor and F augmented major chords move as passing chords, meaning they are often played for short periods like this. Look at the voice Le top. Note that this augmented chord plays a role in increasing it by half a step each time. includes the blues scale note I mentioned next in the list, it's progression 1425. I'll move on to guitar to change this progression.

Arguably the most common use of augmented chords you'll come across is to play the tonic chord as an augmented chord. chord, the goal here is to again create a good vocal lead line, in this case going from the fifth note in a chord to the sharp fifth in an augmented one to a chord containing the sixth note of the scale in this clef example. C major. The four F major chords contain the sixth note of the scale, which is a, so the ascending line goes from g to gsh to a. You can see it here going from the open G note to a gsh on the first fret and an A on the second fret.

Let's now move on to the 1365 progression. At first glance, this progression is not so suitable for the use of an augmented chord, particularly because the three chord lacks the sixth note to resolve after the augmented one, but if you play it as a sus four chord, then This sixth note is introduced and allows you to produce the half-step voicing that leads to the augmented chords. I love it, this is what that sounds like in the key of C major, going down the list a little bit and you come to a non-diatonic example 1 flat 745 the flat The s chord is a borrowed chord from the parallel Doric keys mixian and aolan.

It is a common string to use in important key progressions that can add unexpected toughness. It introduces the flat 7 note as a root note that is out of key, but can play an interesting role in the main ideas of the augmented chord voicing that I have been demonstrating so far. I've been looking for chords with the six scale note to follow the augmented one chord, but what if you can't find it or think of it? of a suitable chord, a useful and interesting idea is to stay on a chord but play the major sixth version of the chord.

The major sixth chord adds the sixth scale note to the major triad. In this case, complete the ascending voice. Le idea I've been demonstrating with the one:one augmented chords, this then leads nicely into the flat seven chord as a natural extension of this, so in the key of C major you would move from C major to C augmented to C major 6 and finally Yes. flat major this creates the ascending line GA a flat a B flat this is what it sounds like. You can also use augmented chords in minor keys. This takes you beyond the major key chord guide, but is still useful and easy to understand.

The most common approach here is sometimes. In classical music, it involves using the augmented major 5 chord again, this time as a way to resolve the minor one chord. Using the standard major 5 chord is a very common way to solve minor key progressions, for example in the key of C minor. would involve playing the G major chord before the C minor chord, this means that both chords share a G note and then the other two notes only have to move half a step creating a nice resolution. If you play the augmented five chord then the fifth note is raised half a step in this example this note is now E flat now both chords share two notes in common leaving only the main note or tone B to resolve to the tonic C this provides a really satisfactory resolution.

I'll touch on the progression first. the major five and then with the increased five so you can see the difference. I must admit that at this point you may have wasted your time. The thing is, everything I just told you is completely useless if you don't know how to create a kernel. Progressions Watch the video on the next screen to learn a really simple basic progression system.