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This Weeks Chord Progression is a pretty rad classic rock style chord progression. You're chords are going to be:

Bm7-E (4 times) then G-D-A (4 times)

In the video, I show you how I like to come up with my chord progressions. They typically start as a melody first and foremost, something I hum in my head. After that I figure out the building blocks and piece it all together. A chord progression is born haha!

This particular one started as a Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia" adjacent melody.

What's neat about this one, is I went into this with the notion that the whole progression was in A Mixolydian (very classic rock) but once I wrote the "intro", that wound up having a more Dorian vibe. Here's those relative scale things again...A Mixolydian and B Dorian have the same notes and therefore the same scale shapes. So do whatever you want! If you don't want to mess with modes, you'd totally still crush this progression with a B minor pentatonic scale!

Have fun with this one!

-Ben

P.S. After listening back, the "chorus" part reminds me a lot of "With a Little Help From My Friends". Guess I nailed that classic rock vibe then eh? Haha!

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