7 Best Piano Chord Progressions for Beginners

Learn 7 best piano chord progressions for beginners and elevate your piano playing to another level!

Wondering how to play chord progression on piano and which ones to focus on? We will show you powerful chord progressions every songwriter should know. Even if you are not into songwriting, you will be able to play your favourite songs now with these easy piano chords and inversions for beginners.

7 common chord progressions explained primarily as piano chord progressions in c, but also in other keys, will broaden you key range and give you a wider palette of sounds to get inspired!

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[contemporaryschoolofpiano]

Thank you for watching! If you know any songs that use 1 2 4 5 progression, share those below!

[Minolta_Andy]

Hi Tom, i started piano 30+ years ago and got very frustrated trying to understand the theory and concepts behind the piano. Now in my late 50s ive come back to piano with a more patient headspace and a different mindset to learning. Thank you for how you present the piano as an instrument. Ive leaned more in 2 months than i every did in the 3 years in my previous attempt. To hear and appreciate the blending of chords and bass notes is so satisfying to me now. Its brilliant, thank you again.

[joanjohnstone]

So pleased to have found Tom Donald's tutorials. He is the absolute best teacher on You tube and speaks total sense, unlike a lot of teachers of music. I am nearly 80 years old and wish I had been lucky enough to have had a teacher like Tom when I started out with the old fashioned classical syllabus, the old fashioned teachers and exams! You are a breath of fresh air to the music world Tom - THANK

[LiliVG]

There is no question that Tom is an excellent teacher breaking down sometimes difficult concepts for the beginner.

[kirstenfruehling]

After watching your Elton John videos Eb maj, Bb maj and Ab maj have instantly become my favourite chords. I really believe we spend too much time on the C scale so that eventually the black keys put the fear of God into us which is a shame

[rpbishop]

There’s nothing that I could possibly say as to what I’m feeling after listening and watching several of your videos this evening. Turning 75 next month your presentations verbally as well as your keyboard translations have been so much more than just inspiring. I could never afford or even allow myself to think of purchasing so much as a single lesson, but as long as I can afford YouTube, I will follow and subscribe. I’m sure that your school is fantastic, and your instructors are excellent, but I do hope that you realize just how much of a gift your YouTube videos really are!

Thanks, rp.

[philippecoron]

C'est le frenchie. Super bien expliqué ce tutorial, , il me manque vos mains. J'adore les accords, je travaille pour peu être un jour approcher votre talent.
Musiquement vôtre

[Fingaphunk]

Incredibly inspiring lesson to expand simple ideas for anyone

[neilfitzgerald]

I have to agree with all the comments here. The way Tom teaches piano is the best I have come across on the internet.

[jorgeparr]

Your lessons are simply AMAZING and so EASY🙏🙏🙏

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[marcblandel]

Merci c'est simple et lumineux so useful too Thanks à lot

[Zonewriter]

Excellent lesson! I really like your teaching style and quality videos. I am currently doing a lot of chord progressions ear training. This will help. Thanks for your passion to share!!

[lawrencetaylor]

I watched this again, at a time where I'm practicing inversions and voicing. Those are two fancy words for really the same thing, understanding the scales. I paused the video, went to the piano and saw how I'm going to spend the next weeks and months and probably years when I sit down and play. Merci beaucoup for this insight.

[sharonosborne]

Thank you! I wish I had a lecturer like you when I did my B.Mus in the 1970's! Still learning!

[lawrencetaylor]

Merci beaucoup for this. Good information presented simply, with an eye to the future.

[beatricejann]

Thanks! Talking to jazz playing friends, I had a feeling there was another way to look at it!!!

[paulwatson]

Thanks for sharing this with such ease, this will definitely improve my playing, great content.

[bazzaf]

So simple but very effective Tom. I especially love the suspended chords and how you play them. I'm so pleased I found your web site as you have certainly moved my piano playing to another level.

[leshoffman]

The 1, 2min, 4, 5 is used in "My Girl" by the Temptations. This is a great course of study for a guitar and bass player who craves a better grasp of piano!

[sulynlam]

Thanks Tom! It’s so obvious from watching your great video that understanding about chords and knowing what signposts to actively listen out for have been sadly lacking in my adventures in self-learning since 2019.
It’s a bit embarrassing but I realise I’ve been playing rather mindlessly, note by single note, while learning to sight-read classical pieces. This has made me (kind of tensely) reliant upon sheet music. I can see from this session that understanding chord patterns could simplify things dramatically and free you up to simply enjoy the sounds of different progressions in themselves.
PS I’m working on your gospel chord pattern video which has had the same revelatory (and joyous) effect!