A chord progression

Songs often contain several chords linked together to form a chord progression. This becomes the basis of the song. Let us add another chord to our progression — the chord of G.

You now have three chords – A minor, D minor and G minor. You have already changed from A minor to D minor using an inversion. Now use an inversion of the G minor chord to move smoothly, economically and efficiently from the D minor chord.

Again we are looking for common notes, so we need to know the notes in both G minor an,d D minor.

G minor: G, Bb and D

D minor: D, F and A

So our common note is D. Have a look at Figure 6 and then try the next exercise.

Figure 6. Changing from D minor to G minor in our chord progression (Enlarge)

You can see that finger two stays on the common note D, whilst the thumb moves up to Bb and finger four moves up to G.

Exercise 10

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