Ep123 What is a Circle Progression? (Using the Circle of 5ths and 4ths)
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What’s a circle chord progression? I discuss this composition technique in my latest podcast episode and explain how it relates to the Circle of Fifths used in music. I give you a few examples based on familiar songs and demonstrate how playing the 5th cycle backward creates the circle of 4ths.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 123 of the guitar music theory podcast I talk about circle |
| 0:05.9 | progressions based on the circle of fits. So, Greetings guitar engineers. |
| 0:27.0 | guitar engineers. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host Desi Cerna. And today I'm going to talk |
| 0:36.3 | about Circle Chord Progressions. Circle Chord Progressions are based on the circle of fits. |
| 0:43.4 | Perhaps you're familiar with the circle of fits, |
| 0:45.9 | and it's used to represent relationships |
| 0:47.9 | between different key signatures. |
| 0:50.5 | Well, we guitar players don't get much use out of that, but we do use a lot of fifth movement on the fret board. |
| 0:57.0 | And that's what I'm going to focus on today. It's going to be a great discussion, but before we get started, what do you specifically need to do |
| 1:05.1 | right now in order to improve your guitar playing? Go to my website, Guitar Music Theory.com, |
| 1:11.6 | answer the question I ask you about your playing, |
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| 1:16.9 | to your current level. |
| 1:18.2 | Whether you're still a beginner needing to learn the basics, |
| 1:20.9 | or you're an advanced player who's ready to delve deeply into music |
| 1:24.0 | theory or you're somewhere in between I can put you on a plan to fill gaps in your |
| 1:28.7 | knowledge and improve your playing so you can move forward and reach your music goals. |
| 1:33.4 | Go to guitar music theory.com now to enroll in your free video course |
| 1:38.0 | you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. So, All right, we are ready to dive in. So what is a circle progression and how is it related to the Circle of Fifths. |
| 2:15.0 | We're going to talk about that here today and by the way I've made a video for this as well. |
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