The C Major Chord Progression is a fairly simple chord progression to learn, and has many chords that a beginner may already know!
There are 7 chords in the progression:
- 3 major chords.
- 3 minor chords.
- 1 diminshed seventh chord.
The C Major scale has 7 notes, and each note has a corresponding chord in the C major chord progression.
After the seventh note the scale repeats in a different octave.
To know what notes we need for the scale, we use a format specific to the Major scale.
In the format we use a combination of whole steps and half steps from the root note (which is C).
It looks like this:
- Whole step.
- Whole step.
- Half step.
- Whole step.
- Whole step.
- Whole step.
- Half step.
So if you start at C in the musical alphabet, you would get this.
- C - Whole step to D.
- D - Whole step to E.
- E - Half step to F.
- F - Whole step to G.
- G - Whole step to A.
- A - Whole step B.
- B - Half to C.
The pattern should always land back on the root note, which as was said earlier will then repeat the pattern in a different octave.
For a Major Chord Progression we use the following format to find out which chord should be a major chord, minor chord, or diminished chord.
