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Actually, the Friday lessons where Tony goes over the chords in a given key are a great place to start. For each key there are 3 Major chords (the 1-4-5) and 3 Minor Chords ( the 2-3-6) plus 1 dominant chord which Tony typically substitutes another chord for because, let’s face it, almost no one uses dominant chords in popular music. So, for every key, you have 7 chords that you can use in any song, in any order. This of course is the quick and dirty version, but just knowing this would have saved me a lot of trial and error when I was first learning.

I’m not sure where you are in your learning journey, so let me know if you need more of an explanation and I will be happy to break it down for you.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by  GuitarGeni. Reason: clarity