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I am a totally blind person, and I am a guitar player. I enjoy listening to your videos, and visualizing the fretboard to play along in my imagination, while you explain the theory behind what you are doing on the keyboard. It is a great exercise to HONE my creative and improvisational skills! Thanks!

Thank you David , and the musicians who contributed chord progressions. Pure enjoyment for us all. Alan

That second chord progression was used in Dream Theater’s “Ministry Of Lost Souls.” It’s such an awesome twist to the 4-chord.

I want to see this again in the future :D

Learnings aside, it was a pleasure to simply listen to you improvise over these progressions. Clever how you found a way to keep the constant C "progression" interesting. Well done!

As someone who is starting to learn, that was pretty eye opening, with the longer chord progressions leading more to a melody and the one chord giving more freedom...

No way you used my chord progression as the first one! Thanks so much for improvising over that and giving your opinion! Amazing video and much love from the Dark Ages :)

That last one was really cool. I was surprised the half step modulation didn't sound jarring at all.

The last one is perfect for key change practice! gives you room to rethink stuff in the first 4 bars and challenges you in the last 4 bars great video David!

I thought I'd offer my own chord progression. I mainly use it as a modulation to the IV, but there's a nice way to turn it back around to the I C | E7 | Am | Gm7 C7 | F | E7 | Am | Fm

The last progression is like getting lost in the airport, and then when you finally DO find your way out, you realize that, once again, you must've left your luggage behind somewhere along the way, and you're now certain you'll get lost again while searching for it once again, but at least there's some comfort in the newfound familiarity of your fate. This is meant as a compliment.

The Beatles (John Lennon?) wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" off of the Revolver album just using the C chord. 🙂 Very nice playing. I like chord progressions that could be played in a cocktail lounge accompanied by simple melodic melodies.

The 4th progression is "The Bygone Days" from Porco Rosso, bearing in mind that the Eb7 chord is a passing chord in the original piece.

The "constant C" reminded me of the time when, as an engineer, I used to do measurements in small power stations where just one machine was running at a constant speed, thus providing a constant "musical note". Very much like the drone of a bagpipe or a hurdy-gurdy! I couldn't help starting to sing some improvised melody over this drone note. Very often, however, I fell back to a melody of some well-known song. - Meanwhile, I am much better in staying with my own improvisation and not being pulled into a known melody!

I made a piece that uses this chord progression: Fmaj7 | F#ø7 | G13 | C6 I really love this one.

3:44 the Still D.R.E lick always pursue me

When David said that little 'nice' at the end, I felt it 🎶❤

i’ve never heard any real musician play this chord progression, and i love it so much Em7 - C#m7 b5 - Dadd9 - c note and then B

I used this chord progression attempting to harmonize a melody my brother created on saxophone. | Cm7/Ab, Cm7/F | (repeat once) | Bb | Cm | F/C, Csus4 |

That was fun, and I enjoyed reading the comments as well. It must be nice to have such a well-informed and appreciative audience.

I have truly learned so much through watching your videos more and more over the past year, and your piano playing is mesmerizing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.

Loved to see my chord progression appearing and listening to your awesome improvisation! Hope I can release the song that features it soon. Adored the video and keep up the great work!

I think it's great that you notice the "spooky" feel of the 2nd chord progression you use here, and then you find the sweetness in it.

The 4th progression (at least the first three chords) is almost exactly the progression of Keep the door open by Andersson.Paak, even in the same tonality if I'm not mistaken.

Nice. I like an 8 chord progression: I, IV, V, VII, II, bVII, V, I. Just one requirement, you gotta do it once, and only once. Another one: i, bIII, iv, bVII. It’s my spooky go-to. And you can loop this one around. Final one: |I| |vii| |bv VI| |V| Also, in the fourth progression, I think the D flat in Eb7 is important because it acts as a leading tone to D in Dm7. It also pulls down to C, which in itself is the 7 in Dm7, which explains why Dm7 is the following chord.

My introduction to jazz improvising on guitar came l late in life when I was doing scales and the teacher started playing just a C chord and said, "Okay now make some decisions, drop some notes, just play." For me it was a great easy start. Better late than never. For what it's worth the most famous one-chord song I know is Smokestack Lightning.

Your videos help me learn from the basics of music to beyond the far more advanced level. I've spent a very productive moment after breakfast. Thank you!

What I immediately noticed about the last chord progression is that when it modulates, it always goes down a fifth instead of a minor sixth had it not modulated. Very nice.

I didnt even watch the video yet, but I´m super hyped. I loved your first video, watched it countless times and learned so much by your playing! You are such a delight!

Yes Will you do this again?

The 4th chord progression really reminds me of Mario galaxy music. I think this one is my favorite in the video so far. Feels very Japanese in a way. Edit: I just found out it is from studio ghiblis Porco Rosso, which makes so much sense now. It completely has that studio ghibli feel..

Amazing improv! ...and some of those progressions are so hypnotic, it's hard to stop.

Amazingly beautiful!! My ear loves that spooky minor sound!

On the 4th progression, apparently David Bowie also has "risen from the grave" (RIP), as this is very similar to the end progression of "Changes"!

The last one makes me think of something Billy Joel would do. Great video. Thank you David and all the contributors.

9:26 My take is that this chord progression is in F major (although I see your C major too). The Eb7 chord would then word as a tritone substituted dominant chord to the following Dm7 chord. Actually the Ebmaj7 would work too, I suppose. Stretching it a bit I would interpret the G7/F as an F13 chord which is a tritone substituted dominant chord to the Em7 chord. This way this chord progression is a beautiful example of functional harmony. The second-to-last chord progression is very similar and nicely goes through the circle of fifths. Great video as always. Maybe I missed something as while I do play the organ (mainly hymns and the occasional præ- and postlude) I don't work with music on a daily basis but I have a bit of interest in music theory.

i can’t make this up. the chord progression at 6:53 made me scream for 5 minutes over how cool it is. literally scream. gutturally. the things music can do man, haha.

The second progression would make a great Bond theme!

that last chord progression is so cool

the 6th progression reminds me the Alan parsons project song " if i could change your mind " , great song

Awesome video! That last chord progression was especially beautiful to me. Loved you’re improvisations.

The 8th one sounds a bit like something that could be played in some jazz bar. People talking, playing cards enjoying whiskey and cigars and the piano man is just vibing along. Not something that goes home on any chord, but it doesn't has to, it's a great low-key ambience.

With regard to the fourth progression (that begins with FMaj7 and ends with C7) - the more natural chord between the Em7 and Dm7 would be A7: this is a ii V i turnaround. But the progression is more sophisticated: Eb7 is the tritone substitution for A7, both chords having the tritone C# (Db) - G. Also there is the descending line from E to Eb to D.

That 4th progression happens to be almost exactly the same as one of my favourite progression to jam with! Though I am used to the Eb7 sound here with the dominant 7, it being the tritone sub of Am in this case. #11 fits into it really well too, as often is the case with tritone subs :)

Most relaxing thing i've heard all day. This was gorgeous.

The second one that you called spooky reminds me a little bit of impressionist composers from France in the late 1800s

Thank you for sharing all of this! I'm gonna steal all these sweet chord progressions!! :D

4:05 Interesting! it's like a little bit of post Rock, Math Rock or movie soundtrack right there.

A very interesting exercise for both the viewer and for David. It looked like David was interested in the resulting suggestions.

That 4th progression is Stevie Wonder's "Saturn" nearly verbatim, just change the Eb7 to Amin. Awesome vid!

how you explane things is so easy to understand thank u

What would be great is if you can also give your thoughts on what key and scale the song is in and which chords are substitutions or modulations/changes. I think this is great idea and would gladly watch any episodes where you do the same thing.

Thank you for another great video. I just want you to know how grateful I am for all of your effort. I have watched many videos over the last year as I try to learn more about music, yours are absolutely the best.

amazing improv! instantly liked and subbed :)

David, I'd like to make a polite request and ask, if it possible, for you to throw up a quick 5 sec shot of the hand position when discussing chords eg Bbmaj7. For those of us who are new to p[iano and still very much at the learning stage, we have to go away and find what that is even if we have a good idea. If you were to do this we could pause the vid', practice and then return with a better understanding,. Thanks. Keep up the great work!

Halloween pop song sounds cool

3:44 about to go into Still D.R.E lol

Awesome video, I can think of few interesting progressions, one would be am - am - dm - em, I came up with this after watching video about why there is not many songs with just minor chords, I'm suprised this progression isn't more common, because it sounds great, similar one would be am - dm - G - em, I actually know one song with that progression, but I accidentaly came up with it by myself too, when doing something with previous progression. Also they both use all diatonic minor chords from normal major scale. Other interesting progression would be D sus 2 - Fmaj7 - A sus 2, I like to play it on the guitar as arpegio, D sus 2 six times, Fmaj7 four times and A sus 2 two times. I try to make not so common progressions with not so complicated chords and I often discover progressions like this. I this way I also discover these progressions: Cadd9 - am - em7 - D sus 2 and Cadd9 - D sus 2 - em7 - A (or A sus 2).

This guy is on another level

"Nice." Indeed and not only the last one, but the whole video. As usually.

Check this out, I found it by accident when I begun to play the guitar: Bmaj7 | C#maj7 C#7maj7sus2 | Bmaj7 | D Bm I play it around 60 bpm for each bar, but feel free of course to change it. And to be clear (because I don't sure about the naming): the C#7maj7sus2 is C# with both the dominant 7th and major 7th at the same time. With the guitar I play a regular maj7 chord when the bass is the 5th string, just removing the pinky from the second string to the 7th fret of the first string (B note) instead. sounded nice to me 😅

I've got a 16 bar progression I really like: C | C+ | C6 | C7 F | Fm | Csus4 | C7 F7 | F#°7 | C | Am Am♭5 G G+ | F7 Fm△7 Fsus2 | Csus4 C | Dm G7 The three chords in the 14th bar are played with a tresillo rhythm

Love this serie!

Descending parallel 9ths on a whole tone scale Esus2 Em7 Cadd9 C7 A#7 G#m7 B7sus4 E-E7

The Only C progression was super interesting (and nice sounding) to me. Great work David!

that last chord progression and improv literally put me into such a relaxed peaceful place i fell asleep! Beautiful!! I would ❤️ to have sheet music if the last magic you created to be able to recreate at home! loved!!🎹🎼🥰

Beautiful and inspirational. I'm a songwriter and this has opened me up to new possibilities.

Wow this was beautiful!

This is so lovely.

this 1st one is really awesome; and actually i've been recently toying with the iv vi I V, too :) however, in my take it's Am7, Fmaj7, C , G+ (Gmaj7 > G+ to make use of the d, f#, g, d, d# line leading to e in Am7)

my fav chord progression is very simple but i love it so much… cadd9, fadd9, d7, dm7, c

This is a fantastic format David! My chord progression would be: Em Em7 // G Gsus9 // C Cmaj7 // D Dsus4 (inspired by Neil Young) or maybe: Am // F // D7 // F // G (inspired by Elliott Smith)

I'm glad I stayed awake This is a treat

III6 (as i7/3) i9 as(iii7 preferably fingered as 2,3,5,7 over 1) VI6 (as iv/6) iv9 as(iii7 preferably fingered as 1,3,5,6 over 4)

Everytime you try to improvise, your music sounds like "aakash Gandhi". I think his music is the most natural expression of emotions.

that sounds amazing

9:02 I really like the Emin7 to Eb7

I’ve got one I really like: C | C7/Bb | F | Fm Dm7b5 |

The middle part of progression 4 sounds kinda like the intro to Changes by David Bowie.

awesome vidéo David thanks so much you're so valuable you can't imagine!

I could listen to you play all day long.

Some really cool progressions here, I liked just about all of them, but the 5th and 7th ones were my favourite. There's just something about I - vi and a vi - IV shifts that really gets to me. Here's a suggestion that I used in one of my own songs if you do this kind of thing again: | Bm9 | Gmaj#11 | Emaj#11 | Bmaj7 | G#sus2 | Let me know what you think.

That first progression reminds me of Saint Ettienne.

I came up with something similar to the fourth chord progression on my own before! Give it a go, David. It's free to use. Fmaj7 - Fdim7 - Emin7 - Edim7 - Dmin7 - Ddim7 - Cmaj7 - C7

this is so helpful to me, thank you so much!

The cool thing about chord progressions is, any of them can be SONGS with the right melody. Chords are pretty useless without a melody, like you said at 14:34 you can end up with a meandering loop of unresolved tension. Those kinds of changes are great for warmup/practice drills though!

KT Tunstall has a song called ‘If Only’ where, in the closing phrases, she invokes a chord progression that positively gives me goosebumps. It’s clear that she could choose a simpler progression and the song would still be quite lovely, but she “takes the scenic route” as I like to say, and it makes such an exquisitely beautiful difference, in my opinion. I’d love to hear your take on it, my friend, and perhaps on other numbers you know of where the artists could have taken the well paved path but instead chose to take us all on a much more satisfying, yearning, maybe even dangerous, but all the more goosebumpily beautiful scenic route. Cheers! -Phill, Las Vegas

Wow never would've guess Karl Marx was such a jazz head! Good for him 👍

That 4 chord change is probably what metal bands would do

I heard this somewhere and I instantly fell in love with it. It feels like a nostalgic victory over something......if that makes any sort of sense. 😅 C#m F# C#m F# A F#m A-B C#add flat 6.

A song with a true single chord loop is the ending to runnin down a dream by tom petty, its just an E over and over and over as the outro solo plays

Dear David, Thanks for this gentle sharing of your song analysis. Very interesting and wonderfully played. I hope you will do this again and chose mine. Therefore, here is my chord progression: E6 | Adim7 | B7 | Emaj7 |Bm7 | E7 |Amaj7 |Dmaj7 |E6 |E | Asus2 |A (or Asus4 and then A) and then loop at E6 I like the way to go from B7 to Bm7 via Emaj7... 😊 I am longing for your advice! And I never heard this chord progression in a song (except in the middle of my own composition that can be heard when clicking on my name 😉). All the best knarf from France 🎸 🇨🇵

What’s it like to be a flaming genius Dave 🤩🤩😇😍

Excellent, thank you ,David.

The first chord progression [Bbmaj7] [Am7] [D7sus4] [D7] is using a Picardy Thirdy. The easiest way for me to see what is going on is always when the chord progression is transposed to natural scale. In this case this would be [Fmaj7] [Em7] [A7sus4] [A7], so the first two chords would belong to the minor scale of Am, the third chord (belonging to the A minor and also to the A major scale) preparing and the fourth chord resolving to the parallel major scale of A, after that it continues again in the A minor scale, so there are 2 key changes per loop between parallel keys. The fourth chord progression by Karl Marx is similar to the chorus in Howard Carpendale "Es ist Zeit zu gehn" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJqPdZhkp6_bpKc.html

When you played Am to Fm, I instantly thought of Steve Wilson.

12:00 sounds like "I'll make it alone.. " - One Day I'll Fly Away by Randy Crawford. Another top drawer video, David 👌

Someone may have already said this, but the first progression is (transposed) Daft Punk - Something About Us ❤️

Fourth chord progression with the ebmaj7 sounds like a tyler the creator song