Coupland's Chord Progression
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2019
- How to play the chord sequence I use when demonstrating guitars.
The chords are Starting with a standard E = 0 2 2 1 0 0,
E6 9 = 0 4 4 2 0 0,
E Maj7 = 0 6 6 4 0 0,
A9 = 0 7 7 6 0 0,
E Maj7 9 = 0 9 9 8 0 0,
E6 = 0 12 11 13 0 0
and finish with E = 0 13 14 14 0 0.
Theme music 'Mustang,' from my album, 'Warbirds,' by Harpaxe. Available from Amazon & i-tunes. - Hudba
It's those final two chords which transition between E6 and E which gives that progression that extra bit of magic.
This is an excellent progression for increasing fretboard familiarity and getting old fingers (like mine) under control!!!
Finally, the secret is revealed! Thank you very much John. Blessings!
Thanks for sharing this, excellent explanation and demonstration.
I was dying to learn that and trying to spot it through the years and finally now I know! Thank you!!!
I got so used to this chords from your demos. I'm gonna learn it...
Guitar code .... I still have a couple of folk music books from the early 1960'S where I also hit upon that idea before I could read music.
I just put a / between the numbers and would therefore notate the chord of E as 5/2 4/2 3/1 or G would be 6/3 5/2 1/3... same idea as yours but I listed the fingerings from 6th string across to 1st with nothing written for open strings. I actually found the system more useful when I was working out the fingerings for melody lines for folk songs. It did help me to quickly learn to link fingerings to fretboard to musical notes.
Thanks for this upload - very nice chord progression.
Amazing work as always. Thank you John
Very nice
E by gum!
I've noticed these chords being used a lot in previous videos, the first 4 always bring to mind "Caledonia" by Dougie MacLean.
Love the way you play, and the way you talk about how you like to play!
I did my own study on the Coupland Chord Progression a while back, and while i enjoy the way you look at it, i have my own which you might find interesting.
You could look at the CCP as progressing along the Diatonic Scale (the Major scale) of the E scale.
I Major, II minor, III minor, IV Major, V Major, VI minor, VII Diminished.
Only with "Pedal Notes" of the Open high and low E string, and the B string.
Which sounds great because those are notes in the root chord of the Key you are playing in.
You move along the Diatonic Progression (which is why it sounds so lovely and natural).
And you stop at the 5 chord.
Which is often the "stop" chord because its the one with the strongest "pull" back to the root, especially if you make it a 7th chord, which is why its used so often in Blues.
Only you move up further to a higher version of the IV 7th chord, before returning home to the Root (at the higher octave).
The A chord (IV) with a 7th.
A chord made of the Root (A) (5 12) the Third (4 11), and the 7th (3 13)
This IV to I conclusion is called a "Plagal Cadence".
Or the "Amen Cadence" because its the sound made by people singing "Aaamen" in church.
I like to look at it as "returning home" from the left side of the Circle of 5ths, compared to the more common "Perfect Cadence" of the V Chord to the I Chord.
So you could think of the CCP as I, ii, iii, IV, V, IV7, I.
(The upper case roman numbers are used to mean Major, and the lower case to mean minor).
I made my own Coupland Chord Progression based on this which you might enjoy.
The first 5 chords are the same.
The sixth is the vi (the VI minor chord of the Major Scale).
3 9, 5 11, 4 11.
And the seventh chord is the vii dim. (The VII Diminished, the last of the Major Scale).
3 11, 5 12, 4 13
And then the high E chord like the original.
Kind of a "more vanilla" variation on the CCP.
I hope that makes sense!
Love the videos.
Also, an idea for future videos, i love the chord progressions in your original music, i can feel a "traditional celtic" influence to them.
I would love to hear how you put them together, and your thought process, when you make chord progressions.
Thanks for the vids!
Thanks to an Open University course that I did a few years ago I actually understood that. I like you variations on a theme. As for my songwriting, I usually start with a melody on either piano, pipe organ or guitar depending on the genre I am aiming for. The chords just appear at the same time. During my pub singing days I got quite adept at busking chords to tunes that I had never heard as they were being sung by drunken Glaswegian pensioners. Minor sevenths cover most things quite nicely.
Glad to hear it.
Small edit: The second last chord in the CCP is actually an A MAJOR 7.
The Root, the 3rd, and the MAJOR 7 one note behind the next A note.
When people write A7 they are referring to a DOMINANT 7th chord.
Which is a Major chord with the MINOR 7th on top.
Which can be called a "Major Minor 7".
So, when we want a Major chord with a Major 7, we have to specify that by calling it an "A Maj 7".
I don't know why the Dominant (or Maj-Min 7) lucked out and got to be the simple "A7" or "C7" chord... while the regular Major 7th needs to have the extra letters added "AMaj7" or "CMaj7"...
What fingerpicking sequence would you suggest for these chords? Thanks also for sharing this with us as it will certainly be helpful when trying new guitars! Kind regards Pete from Peterborough UK
Try 6, 3, (scratch 4-1), 2 Then repeat but starting on 5. This works finger or plectrum style.
Thanks John, but what is scratch 4-1? Pete
Scratch= strum once using the back of your middle finger or a pick. See czcams.com/video/NBzC2gDinmk/video.html for a full explanation.
First! greetings from France, 🙏