Without a doubt, it’s a classic, and if you aren’t already familiar with it, you need to add it to your musical vocabulary immediately. This chord progression is the very essence of songs like The Troggs’ “Wild Thing,” Green Day’s “Minority,” and many others. It has a slight bit of suspense because of how the chords are ordered, but for the most part, it’s a safe bet in happier sounding tunes. This is a major progression through and through, which means it has a happy, upbeat sound. That said, this is one of those progressions that will translate well to most popular genres – pop, rock, punk rock, singer-songwriter, folk, and more. In “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Journey rotates in the iii in place of the vi every second line, and that gives the chord progression a little more flavor. So, what’s an example you would have heard? Well, this is, in fact, the chord progression that dominates most of Coldplay’s hit song, “Clocks.” It has kind of wide-eyed helicopter adventure through the mountains kind of vibe (of course, that will depend on how you play it). There aren’t too many popular progressions that meet both conditions, but the V – ii – vi chord progression does.Īnd this is one of those progressions that doesn’t have heavy leanings in the major or minor direction.
There are progressions that are missing the I chord. There are chord progressions that start on the V chord. But there are other ways of using it, as “Bohemian Rhapsody” proves. The chord progression sounds like it would work nicely in a 50s Doo-wop, or perhaps a ballad. And like the IV, it naturally wants to lead into the V. The ii or Am is a little less common, so it makes for a nice “color” chord in context. What’s fascinating about this chord progression is that you can basically substitute the ii with the IV (in the key of G, the IV would be C).
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