A journey of learning and understanding the most useful principles of harmonic progressions and chord construction, from the viewpoint of some of the most successful popular songs written in recent decades. Step by step, we’ll go from simple diatonic triads, through a number sources of non-diatonic chords, into chord families and modulations.

We’ll check out songs by Stevie Wonder, John Legend, The Beatles, Sting, Whitney Houston, James Taylor and many others.