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Turnaround Chord Progressions Sound Cool

Although there are a huge number of possible chord progressions, only few of them sound really cool. These mostly follow a certain pattern that you will read about on this site. You'll also find out about sequences of chords that can be repeated over and over again, that are known as turnaround progressions.
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Cool Guitar Chord Progressions
An Example of a Cool Turnaround Chord Pr...
Funny Video That Shows What I Mean
More Cool Chord Progressions
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Why Some Chords Sound Cool Together and Others Not

First, let's take a look at the root notes as they are the basis of each chord. If you number the notes of the C Major scale from 1 to 8, you will find the switch between notes 1, 4 and 5 sound a lot better and stronger than between any other notes.

An Example of a Cool Turnaround Chord Progression

Since the movements between the 1st, 4th and 5th note are the best sounding, let's find a progression, where the first and the last sound are one of those, so if repeated over and over again, it will give a good tune.

Take, for example, a progression that has the 1st (C) and 4th (F) chords at the beginning and at the end and play it on your guitar. Use different guitar strumming patterns and guitar strumming techniques and listen to how that sounds.

Sounds cool, huh?

That's because of the strong movements between the F and the C chords whenever you repeat the progression.

Funny Video That Shows What I Mean

Watch How a Really Cool Progression Can be Used...

The progression used in this video is C, G, Am, F (means it contains all three of the 1, 4 and 5 notes!).

One Chord Progression to Rule them All (51 "4 chord songs" in 2 minutes): by jimlapbap | video info

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More Cool Chord Progressions

Now that you understood the mechanics of a cool chord progression, it is really easy to experiment and build your own progressions as you like them. Here are two more examples that follow the same pattern, containing at least two of the strong notes, as explained above: