Minor chord progressions
Major and minor: the age-old struggle between good and evil. Well, maybe that’s taking things a bit far, but the point is, research supports the idea that everybody can recognize the difference between the upbeat vibe of a major key and the sadder feeling provoked by a minor key.
If you’re setting out to compose a tune in a particular mood, how do you know when you’re in a minor key? After all, three out of the seven chords that belong to a major key are, of course, also minor chords. So just because the majority of the chords in a song are minor, you’re not necessarily in a minor key – you might have stumbled across the three minor chords that are diatonic to a major key. As
