Dreamy progression 1 in C major
C · Am · E♭ · C
I · vi · ♭III · I
Floating and soft-edged, a borrowed chord darkening the turn home, a soft plagal landing
Dreamy chord progressions for guitar
Floating, soft-edged, unresolved. These progressions sound floating and soft-edged, usually sit in C major, F major, A minor and E minor and suit a tempo of around 70 BPM. Every chord has a guitar diagram for standard EADGBE tuning.
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Dreamy progression 2 in F major
F · C · Dm · B♭
I · V · vi · IV
Floating and soft-edged, open ended, built to loop straight back round
Dreamy progression 3 in A minor
Am · C · D · Am
i · III · IV · i
Floating and soft-edged, a borrowed chord darkening the turn home
Dreamy progression 4 in E minor
Em · C/E · B7 · C
i · VI · V7 · VI
Floating and soft-edged, a deceptive turn away from home
A strum pattern for dreamy songs
One bar of eighth notes. Down arrows are downstrokes, up arrows upstrokes, dots are misses: keep your hand moving through them.
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How to use these progressions
Play each chord for the length shown, repeat the loop, and hum or sing over it until a melody turns up. The Roman numerals under each progression name the chords by their place in the key, so the same pattern works in any key: open it in the generator and change the key to suit your voice. Chord progressions are not covered by copyright, so anything you write over them is yours.
Same mood on ukulele
Dreamy chord progressions for ukulele
More moods for guitar
- HappyBright major motion, front-porch energy
- SadMinor-led, slow to resolve
- RomanticWarm, tender, close-slow-dance
- EnergeticForward motion, driving strum
- ChillLaid-back, hammock-and-porch
- MysteriousModal shadows, minor sevenths
- NostalgicOld-time, folk-song familiarity
- TriumphantBroad, major, arms-in-the-air
- TenseCoiled, chromatic, refuses to settle
- PlayfulBouncy, skipping, a bit cheeky