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Country Progressions

COUNTRY PROGRESS'ONs

Before continuing your way through this book it will be important to have a basic understanding

of a Country chord progression. Most Country songs follow a common sequence of chords with

each chord played for a certain amount of bars.

A Country progression is generally constructed from the three basic chords in a key which are

illustrated in the table below. These three chords are referred to as the l, lV and V chords. The

Roman numerals relating to the 1st, 4th, and Sth notes of the major scale from which each chord

takes its name.

K e y + A

# r u b B

C clnb D nfrur p

F r#rch G cil/Ah

eilrub

c # n b

n#rub

r#lch

c#lab

u#rub

r f,lcb

c#ab

n$rub

c # n b

r#lcb

cf,lab

afrnh

c#nb

n # n b

16 BAR COUNTRY PROGRESS'ON

The 15 bar Country progression is the most common chord sequence used in Country. There are

many variations of this progression. The example below consists of two bars of the I chord, four

bars of the V chord, four bars of the I chord, two of the lV chord, one bar of the I chord, one bar

of the V chord and two bars of the I chord.

Measure numbers are indicated below the staff at the beginning of each bar.

Country Progressions