chordslol

Genre

Folk chord progressions

Traditional acoustic music with simple, memorable progressions

What makes it sound like this

Harmonic fingerprints.

  • Open chords
  • Capo usage
  • Modal harmony
  • Drone notes

Where it lives

Common keys.

The tonal centres folk keeps coming back to — usually because they sit well on the instruments the style was built on. Each key page carries its full diatonic chord set, and links its relative minor for the darker corners of the genre.

Go deeper

Progression pages filed under folk.

Each one is realized in all fifteen keys of its mode, with audio and the songs that use it.