{"id":482,"date":"2015-07-13T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T03:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-07-16T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T03:37:16","slug":"progressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Progressions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Progressions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Progressions.png\" alt=\"Progessions...\" width=\"251\" height=\"46\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are progressions? How are they used? What is the meaning of this? This is a very interesting topic and it&#8217;s one that I have been thinking about for a little while. And so I have decided to \u00a0write about this. Let&#8217;s start with a definition from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chord_Progression\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mod\" data-md=\"61\">\n<div class=\"_oDd\" data-hveid=\"36\"><span class=\"_Tgc\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=186\">chord<\/a> <b>progression<\/b> (or harmonic\u00a0<b>progression<\/b>) is a series of <b>musical<\/b> chords, or chord changes that &#8220;aims for a definite goal&#8221; of establishing (or contradicting) a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord and that is based upon a succession of root relationships.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This definition is very good, and helps to outline that chord or harmonic progression is based on the fact that they are used in a sequence to help tell a story. \u00a0The beauty of chord progressions is that you could use the same chords in a progression\u00a0to tell a different based on your what you have to say &#8211; But that&#8217;s another blog post for later &#8211; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Basically a chord progression is a series of chords that are played in sequence that you would play in time. There are so many chords and variations on those chords in that you could take a very simple song and make it very complex by using more advanced chord progressions. Or you could take a complex song and simplify it by using simpler chords and chord progressions. Here&#8217;s a youtube clip I made just for this post &#8211; Mary Had A Little Lamb:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pST68D0mAXA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The object of this post is to introduce chord progressions in a non threatening way and to let you know that now matter how complex and simple your &#8220;progression&#8221; may be through life, it can still be beautiful. It depends on how you &#8220;Play It By Ear&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are progressions? How are they used? What is the meaning of this? This is a very interesting topic and it&#8217;s one that I have been thinking about for a little while. And so I have decided to \u00a0write about this. Let&#8217;s start with a definition from Wikipedia: A chord progression (or harmonic\u00a0progression) is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/?p=482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Progressions&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hunteeboy.com\/playitbyear\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}