page_title: Ii–V–I progression
section_title: Minor key
hierarchical_section_title: Ii–V–I progression / Minor key
caption_attribution_description: English: ii-V-I turnaround in C minor.
context_page_description: The ii–V–I progression is a common cadential chord progression used in a wide variety of music genres, including jazz harmony. It is a succession of chords whose roots descend in fifths from the second degree to the fifth degree, and finally to the tonic. In a major key, the supertonic triad is minor, and in a minor key it is diminished. The dominant is, in its normal form, a major triad and commonly a dominant seventh chord. With the addition of chord alterations, substitutions, and extensions, limitless variations exist on this simple formula.
  The ii–V–I progression is "a staple of virtually every type of [Western] popular music", including jazz, R&B, pop, rock, and country. Examples include "Honeysuckle Rose", which, "features several bars in which the harmony goes back and forth between the II and V chords before finally resolving on the I chord," "Satin Doll", and "If I Fell".
context_section_description: In minor, a seventh chord built on the supertonic yields a half-diminished seventh chord, which is a very strong predominant chord.  Due to what is considered the harsh nature of root position diminished chords, the iiø chord most often appears in first inversion.
  The iiø chord appears in the natural minor scale and may be considered a minor seventh chord with a flatted fifth and is used in the ii–V–I in minor
caption: ii–V7–I progression in C minor: Dm7♭5–G7–Cm[7] About this soundPlay (help·info).
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