By far the best way to find any and all information about guitars on the internet is to click the image to the left. There are 200 great sites all listed by popularity. Get my articles delivered right to your inbox. Chord progressions You will be hearing about chord progressions from now on. A chord progression is simply a series of chords which make up a piece of music.
Chords are the setters of rules within a piece of music.
Each moment of any tune is backed by a chord which, for those moments, sets the rules. It determines where the melody can go, what the harmonies will be etc. It is the composer of the song who determines which chords go where, what the progression will be. There are many other familiar progressions which have been the basis of hundreds of hit songs, and there is a whole science to the way chords can lead to each other. Progressions are often the spark of a composition, rather than the melody.