How to Play Piano Chord Progressions

Video Transcript

"Hi, John Aguilar again. Now we're going to do a progression of chords; a one, six, four, five progression in the key of C. We always like to start with the key of C because it is all white notes and it is easy to play. Here's a C chord. Okay if you count up one, two, three, four, five, six in the key of C on the C scale. There's the six. Then we are going to go to the four. Count up four. There's F the four and then five, one, two, three, four, five G. So there is our progression, one, six, four, five. Okay but instead of going up to the six we'll go down to the six. This is the one C major, A minor, that's the six. Four is F. Five is G. And that's the progression. You hear this progression in many songs. We'll add a base note to it. C since we're playing a C chord. A. So we have C, A minor, F, G. C, A minor I know you can probably hear in your imagination all the songs that uses this progression. And then we will do a grand finale with our arpeggio. And that's a one, six, four, five progression in the key of C."