How To CREATE Your Own Chord Progressions

In this beginners lesson, I show you how to create your own chord progressions on the piano. This is done using the knowledge that every note from a major scale has a chord built from it. Every major scale has the same sequence of chords built from it.

The sequence is as follows: Major, Minor, Minor, Major, Major, Minor, Diminished.

If we take any random combination of these chords we have a chord progression. There are literally an infinite amount of progression we could come up with.

Use this knowledge to come up with your own progressions. Play around with the rhythm, change the chord inversions and add some passing notes to make it sound more original.

If you have any questions just leave a comment below!

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[raahilshammin]

Just to give some tips, here’s the way I make chord progressions.

Let’s start with the chords at 3:47 as a template
Am F Dm G

Now something I like to do is replace minor chords with their major version. Here that turned it into:
A F D G

As I was playing this, the G chord sounded out of place, so I used another trick that I like where play a major chord and then after play the minor. Then we end up at:
A F D Dm

I was pretty happy with this. I think over time as you just play around with random chords, you’ll find what sounds good. That’s how I developed my tricks that I used here. I personally think it makes the chords more unique to me.

Just another trick I use is is putting the root chord next to the major chord coming from the seventh note in the scale. For example in C major, I’d take the 7th note, B, and use it’s major chord. Then you’d get B major and C major. Here’s and example:
G B C Cm

As you see, I used B major right next to C major. I also used that other trick to get C major next to C minor. In general, as you play around with chords, you’ll find your own tricks to make and adjust chords to make them unique. Hope that helped!

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I'm a EDM producer, but sometimes I like to just play around and create random piano chords progression, this video really help 😉🎵🎶

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did six years of piano because i wanted to play songs and i got tired of the same old sheets and booklets full of classical so i quit but this-
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I was testing this out and accidentally made the music for geometry dash level one music
(C, G, A, F)

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