Eight Awesome Chord Progression in A minor

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Another awesome and fun video to play.

Today I want to show you the Eight Awesome Chord Progression in A minor you Must Learn before you die.

I had such massive feedback for the previews video 7 Chord Progression you Must Learn Before you Die, I decided to make another video, this time more specific in a minor key.

The Video

The Chord Progressions

Let’s get into details and show you the chord progressions I have used for this video.

Each of these chords progressions comes with a bunch of techniques, styles, and a musical approach that can transform a simple chord progression into a beautiful guitar part.

The most simple things you play on the guitar are usually the ones we appreciate the most because we can see ourselves achieving it.

I did my best to keep things as simple as possible so that you can try to learn these chord progressions and be inspired.

Good luck.

The Ed Sheeran A minor Style

This chord progression reminds me of some of the Ed Sheeran songs.

I am using a quite energetic strumming approach with palm muting.

The chord progression is : Am – F – C – G x2 – F – Am – F – C – G

The Percussive Pop

One of my favorite fingerstyle approach on guitar.

The Percussive Pop is achieved by combining chords, percussive approach, and melody.

I like the fact that you can move the melody around on each chord.

Chords: Am – Fadd9 – C – G

The A minor Swing

I love to play this simple chord progression.

The vibe here is swing. The bluesy melody is enjoyable to play!

One thing essential, I am muffling the bass note with the right-hand thumb.

Learn the chord progression then add the melody: Am – C – F7(13) – E7 – Am – G – F7 – E7

The Busy Arpeggio

You can use this chord progression to improve your right-hand fingerstyle technique and left-hand finger stretch.

The fingerstyle pattern is pretty intricate, and it will take sometime before you can perform it fluently.

As always, take things step by step and memorize one chord at a time before you move on to the next one.

The chords are: Am7add9 – Fmaj7(#11) – Gmaj(6).

The Melodic A minor

One of my favorite approaches to acoustic guitar.

Here I am using the 153 minor and major chord shape.

The voicing is super mellow and lovely to play.

Chord progression: Am – G/B – C – Dm – Am – C – G – Am – G/B – C – C/E – F – G – Am

Many chords, guys.

The Jazzy A minor

With this approach, we are focusing on a jazzy chord progression.

The melody is pretty simple and moves around the chords.

Am – Dm – G – Cmaj7 – F – Bmin7b5 – E7 – Am

The Spanish Impro

Another way to combine chords and melody simultaneously.

I am playing Am – G – F – E, and I play a piece of improvisation on each chord with the Spanish impro.

Worth trying.