Country chord progressions for ukulele

Boom-chick, I IV V, walking bass. These progressions sound honky-tonk and open-road, usually sit in G major, C major, D major and A minor and suit a tempo of around 100 BPM. Every chord has a ukulele diagram for standard GCEA tuning.

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4 Country chord progressions to play now

Country progression 1 in G major

G · C · D · G

I · IV · V · I

4/4 · 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar · around 100 BPM

132GCEA
G
1GCEA
C
123GCEA
D

Honky-tonk and open-road

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Country progression 2 in C major

C · G · F · C

I · V · IV · I

4/4 · 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar · around 100 BPM

1GCEA
C
132GCEA
G
21GCEA
F

Honky-tonk and open-road, a soft plagal landing

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Country progression 3 in D major

D · G · A · G

I · IV · V · IV

4/4 · 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar · around 100 BPM

123GCEA
D
132GCEA
G
21GCEA
A

Honky-tonk and open-road, built on the three chord I IV V turnaround, open ended, built to loop straight back round

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Country progression 4 in A minor

Dm · G · Am · Dm

iv · VII · i · iv

4/4 · 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar, 1 bar · around 100 BPM

231GCEA
Dm
132GCEA
G
2GCEA
Am

Honky-tonk and open-road, open ended, built to loop straight back round

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A strum pattern for Country 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.

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