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Post subject: For beginners: "Oldies" progression
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:52 pm
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Here's a little something for beginners like me. I've been having a lot of fun lately playing the so-called "oldies" chord progression. It's the basis for a lot of pop songs from the 1950s. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun:

C - Am - F - G - repeat

Experiment with different numbers of strums per measure to match different songs. Give it a try and have fun! :D

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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:40 pm
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russianracehorse wrote:
Here's a little something for beginners like me. I've been having a lot of fun lately playing the so-called "oldies" chord progression. It's the basis for a lot of pop songs from the 1950s. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun:

C - Am - F - G - repeat

Experiment with different numbers of strums per measure to match different songs. Give it a try and have fun! :D


If you're interested in changing keys, you have:

I - vi - IV - V


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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:47 pm
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russianracehorse wrote:
Here's a little something for beginners like me. I've been having a lot of fun lately playing the so-called "oldies" chord progression. It's the basis for a lot of pop songs from the 1950s. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun:

C - Am - F - G - repeat

Experiment with different numbers of strums per measure to match different songs. Give it a try and have fun! :D


Toss a 7th on the G, and you have the progression for "sleepwalk".

"This boy" from the Beatles will also work, with a few added chords

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play A mi then C F and G and you've nearly got runaway by del shannon.


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russianracehorse wrote:
Here's a little something for beginners like me. I've been having a lot of fun lately playing the so-called "oldies" chord progression. It's the basis for a lot of pop songs from the 1950s. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun:

C - Am - F - G - repeat

Experiment with different numbers of strums per measure to match different songs. Give it a try and have fun! :D

Thanks, Thats pretty cool!
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:23 pm
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russianracehorse wrote:
Here's a little something for beginners like me. I've been having a lot of fun lately playing the so-called "oldies" chord progression. It's the basis for a lot of pop songs from the 1950s. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun:

C - Am - F - G - repeat

Experiment with different numbers of strums per measure to match different songs. Give it a try and have fun! :D



Shh, you're giving away secrets. Just joking. This happens to be the root to some of my earlier songs I composed. Keep playing and have fun.

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C, Am, F, G: Sleepwalk. the bridge is fairly simple also. Isn't amazing how elegantly simple some of the best song ever were?


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If you change the order a bit:

Am F C G
Am F C E

it's The Passenger by Iggy Pop, which I just worked out this week.

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C-Am-F-G7
' If I Had A Hammer '
One of the first songs I ever learned back in 1963, my group played it on our first gig, we were like 13 years old at the time, ah.......memories.

Another chord progression used a lot in the sixties.
Am-E-G-D-F-C-E
eg. ' We Used Too Know ' - Jethro Tull
and ' La Route A Chicago ' - By some French-Canadian guy. I've forgotten his name but I would love to know it, because it was a fantastic song and I would like to find it again.


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Or you can substitute with G, Em, C, D.
Or start in D, Bm, G, A.

Play in whichever key works for your voice (very slowly) and sing, "All my Love" by the Everly Brothers.

This progression is the basis for hundreds of tunes and has as many variations.

Isn't it great that it's so simple?

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