{"id":131,"date":"2018-12-21T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T19:29:37","slug":"jazz-piano-chord-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/jazz-piano-chord-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2-5-1 Chord Progression (Jazz Piano 101)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you love jazz and the rich sounds of 7th chords? Then you need to learn the 2-5-1 progression. This progression is a staple in jazz music and will sound familiar to you as soon as you hear it!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The progression is built up of only 3 chords based on the 2nd, 5th, and 1st intervals of the scale. If you are playing in the key of C you will play a Dm7 G7 and Cmaj7. &nbsp;Playing the 2 chord using its 2nd inversion will help you move between the progression very smoothly so try playing these chords as follows<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Dm7 is D-F-A-C (root)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>G7: D-F-G-B (2nd Inversion)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cmaj7: C-E-G-B (root)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are new to 7th chords and jazz sounds I suggest you spend some time playing each of these chords on its own until you are comfortable with it. You can play them in broken and solid form, using inversions up and down to help get really comfortable with the chords. Once you are feeling great with these shapes play them as a progression. There are lots of ways to do this. &nbsp;You can play chords in both hands, You can play the chord left hand only and then use your right hand to play riffs or melody OR you can play the chords in your right hand while you left-hand plays a simple accompaniment based on the root note.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span class=\"blue-text-block\"><center><h2 style=\"font-size:22px\"><b>\ud83c\udfb9 Learn Piano With Real Teachers<\/b><\/h2><p>The best way to learn piano is with real teachers, but not everyone has the time and money for a private instructor. At Pianote, you can get real feedback from real experts\u2026all from the comfort of your own home. Explore our Method and community yourself with a free 7-day trial.<\/p><p><\/p><a class=\"join\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRY PIANOTE FOR 7 DAYS<\/a><\/center><p><\/p><\/span>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MOST common jazz progression. Want to learn jazz? You need to learn this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1104,507,524,509],"tags":[1134],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chord-progressions","category-chord-theory","category-styles","category-technique","tag-easy-chords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}