 Hi guys, this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson We are going to take a very popular chord chord progression shape which is one four five and Just see what we can do with it in order to create all sorts of different emotions and themes Just pretty much using triads, which I'm sure most of you would know While watching this lesson major and minor chords, right? So before we get started I would request you all if you haven't already, please subscribe to our YouTube channel It'll help us greatly and also turn on the bell icon if you haven't already for all the notifications and new lessons Okay, let's get started. So this entire lesson is built around the one four and the five chord progression So if I were to build the one four and five chord progression on the major scale I'm going to take G as my key center In other words G major so if I have to build a one four five chord progression using the G major scale Here's how it's done. You take the one which is G. You take the four which is C And you take the five which is D and you'll realize that all these chords are going to be major chords Right G major C major D major And use for a lot of songs So you use this a lot for all the folk music out there or pop songs and some rock songs as well So let's go a little bit beyond that in this lesson Using some small modifications and and just sort of maths really, okay So you have the one four and the five as your base. So that's your root always go up a perfect fourth and then go up a Perfect fifth. So if you're not aware of that, it's G C and D now when you're on G You could play either a G major chord or a G minor chord when you're on C You can either play a C major chord or a C minor chord and as we know minor chords sound sadder or more Melancholic compared to the major chords which sound more uplifting or just plain old happier, okay So now if we do the D chord, which is the five from G perfect fifth as we say Can play D major or a D minor so the whole idea of this Tutorial is to give you like a nice practice environment wherein you can now mix and match major and minor chords and Also, let's see what it does to the music So if you take all minor G minor C minor D minor G minor right this actually forms the base for a Aeolian or a minor scale The natural minor as we call it for minor Back to one made one mine. So all minor Immediately You can create very interesting music very Melancholic or very laid-back or very Sort of sad music, maybe like a long hard journey which you're trying to Simulate so what do you do there earlier? We did G major C major and D major now. We're doing G minor C minor and D minor just making the whole mood very somber so to speak so yeah And now let's look at some other permutations. What about one minor four minor and five major so that'll be G minor C minor I'm using inversions to make the change more sonically pleasing and also easier for the piano We link up our chord inversions series, which I'd advise you to watch if you feel you're not so good at inversions. So G minor C minor and D major which is a very strong Resolution back to the G minor chord And This will work really well for the harmonic minor scale In fact, if you take those three chords G minor C minor and D major or even D7 It'll work really well for any music you want to create or any melody you'd like to create on the harmonic minor So as you're look as you're probably Figuring out by now These are pretty much all the permutations of the one the four and the five chords So you take one major or one minor four major or four minor or five major or five minor So how many options can there be two raised to three? Isn't it binary permutations? So you say why two raised to three because two major or minor three because there are three slots to fill The one the four or the five so there should be eight chord progressions which can yield At least eight skills to work on right? So let's see where we can go further What if we do the one major going to the four minor and then the five major? Let's see what that sounds like so that's one major I love that one major C minor It's sort of like the harmonic minor, but with a major third in there Beautiful sound that's your harmonic major I guess and then yeah if you do one major Four major and five minor that'll give you another exciting set of options. So you have G major C major Very mixolidian I'm not saying you can't play other chords But just start with this one four and five and look at the different options We are able to figure out right we are not only gaining new chord progressions You're also gaining new melodic options because each of these unique chord progressions Also yields a new scale if you think about it right obviously because it goes beyond the major domain So you have the mixolidian which is Okay, which is one four Five minor and back to one major. What else can we do one minor four major five major? That's gonna sound fun G minor Four major and five major this will form like a melodic minor And and what I really like the most I've saved the best two for last which are the last two permutations Which is one minor four major and five minor that that creates a very brave epic kind of vibe So you do G minor That's C major Just those two chords are quite Quite sufficient actually to give you a lot of ideas And a five minor it's a very brave epic sound Or from the perspective of the writer I guess you could say you're writing it's like a one to many you're trying to You know bring talk to many people as opposed to a love song where you're just addressing one person Right, so they're the normal major one major four major five chords will work But for this which can form like a Dorian scale With a very brave and epic kind of a sound. Yeah, and then another would be where you take the one major Then you go to the four minor And then you can go to the And back to the one major so that's major one Minor four and minor sixth major one minor four and Minor five as well. This is Call this like a Mixolydian flat six scale, right? So We have seen the one four five chord progressions in this lesson and all the permutations Created if the one was major or minor if the four was major or minor or if the five was major or minor That'll be two raised to three. That's eight options. So we have eight scales at the bare minimum Eight chord progressions actually a lot of chord progressions over these one four five options, right? So who you hope you guys found this tutorial useful and I hope you can make some nice music using these concepts and If you like the lesson do give it a thumbs up Do subscribe to our YouTube channel and please turn on that bell icon for notifications and Share the lesson Cheers