One thing that Taylor Swift leans into a lot are songs based around a 1 4 5 progression. This is the chord progression that blues music is based around and it has also been used for country, classic ...

There are certain chord progressions that are steadfast stalwarts in pop music because of their catchy familiarity. The focus in this article is the I-IV-V. I-IV-V, if you don’t know is 1, 4, 5 ...

So a 1-4-5 progression, for example, will give us C-F-G in C major, but D-G-A in D major. Step 7: You can spice the 2-5-1 up a bit by using 7th chords, and different voicings and inversions, as shown ...