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Any additional chords must by default be minor or diminished. How Is I-IV-V Used? Typically, as above, to create chord progressions that are the ultimate in major chord progressions within a key.

Old favourites When creating a harmonic progression, particularly for a song, we are looking to create a sequence of chords which may repeat as the song progresses.

The ii-V-I has been referred to as a chord progression, a turnaround, and a cadence depending on the circumstances it is used.

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And all of the chords have a dominant 7 quality or implied tonality. So the basic underlying progression is F7 - D7 - G7 - C7.

For a music theory refresher, that term refers to the I-V-vi-IV chord progression or any pattern using those four chords consecutively.