Chords Progressions.

"The recipe for music is part melody, lyric, rhythm, and harmony (chord progressions). The termchord progression refers to a succession of tones or chords played in a particular order for aspecified duration that harmonizes with the melody. Except for styles such as rap and free jazz,chord progressions are an essential building block of contemporary western music establishingthe basic framework of a song. If you take a look at a large number of popular songs, you willfind that certain combinations of chords are used repeatedly because the individual chords justsimply sound good together. I call these popular chord progressions the money chords. Thesemoney chord patterns vary in length from one- or two-chord progressions to sequences lastingfor the whole song such as the twelve-bar blues and thirty-two bar rhythm changes." (Excerptfrom Chord Progressions For Songwriters © 2003 by Richard J. Scott) Every guitarist shouldhave a working knowledge of how these chord progressions are created and used in popularmusic.