K-pop progression 1 in C major
C · B♭ · F · C/E
I · ♭VII · IV · I
Bright, busy and hook-stacked, built on the flat seven rock cadence, ♭VII IV I, open ended, built to loop straight back round
K-pop chord progressions for guitar
Maximal pop, key lifts and borrowed colour. These progressions sound bright, busy and hook-stacked, usually sit in C major, G major, D major and A minor and suit a tempo of around 122 BPM. Every chord has a guitar diagram for standard EADGBE tuning.
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K-pop progression 2 in G major
G · A7 · D · G
I · V7/V · V · I
Bright, busy and hook-stacked, a secondary dominant pulling into the next chord
K-pop progression 3 in D major
Bm · G/B · D · A
vi · IV · I · V
Bright, busy and hook-stacked, built on the four chord loop started from vi, open ended, built to loop straight back round
K-pop progression 4 in A minor
F · C/E · D · Am
VI · III · IV · i
Bright, busy and hook-stacked, a borrowed chord darkening the turn home
A strum pattern for K-pop songs
One bar of eighth notes. Down arrows are downstrokes, up arrows upstrokes, dots are misses: keep your hand moving through them.
↓ ↑ ↓ ↑ ↓ ↑ ↓ ↑
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
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
K-pop chord progressions for ukulele
More genres for guitar
- PopFour-chord loops, big hooks
- R&BSmooth, slow-moving, lots of colour
- Lo-fiJazzy seventh loops, slow and warm
- ReggaetónMinor four-chord loop over a dembow pulse
- Latin popBright loops with a montuno lilt
- IndieModal, jangly, a little off-centre
- Alt rockRiff-led and minor-leaning, ♭VII and ♭VI bite
- Bedroom popHazy maj7 loops, soft and close
- Singer-songwriterFingerpicked, lyric-first, room to breathe
- CountryBoom-chick, I IV V, walking bass
- Música mexicanaCorrido and banda, a vals lilt in three
- BluesDominant sevenths, 12-bar turnarounds
- FolkFingerpicked, modal, story-telling
- ReggaeOff-beat skank, nothing on the one
- Pop punkSingalong four-chord choruses, all downstrokes
- GospelPassing dominants, plagal amens