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.