I — V — vi — IV
Classic reggae progression
Genre
Reggae chord progressions
Jamaican music with off-beat rhythms and simple harmony
What makes it sound like this
Harmonic fingerprints.
- Off-beat chords
- Major/minor triads
- I-V-vi-IV progression
- Repetitive patterns
Where it lives
Common keys.
The tonal centres reggae 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.
3 progressions
The changes reggae runs on.
Written in roman numerals, then spelled out in the key of C. Every chord links to its own page; where the pattern has a full progression page of its own, that link is on the card.