Chord & FretGospel · ii-V-I estendido — Electric guitar
What is the Gospel · ii-V-I estendido progression?
The Gospel · ii-V-I estendido progression is D#m → G# → C# (ii – V – I), in the key of Db. Read as harmonic function it moves subdominant → dominant → tonic, arriving home on a cadence. Play one chord per bar and let it loop.
Four chords, a whole story: D#m (ii, the stroll) → G# (V, time to come back) → C# (I, home). Hit play. First pass, just listen. Second pass, follow with your finger on the names — and notice that by the second-to-last chord, your body already knows C# — home — is coming.
Electric guitar
On an electric guitar you rarely have to cover the low bass yourself, because in a band the bass player takes that job, so your chords can sit higher and cleaner. This is the electric guitar's home ground: pop, rock, blues, funk and soul were shaped around its sound, whether you strum full chords or play short, tight chord stabs behind the singer. Its home chord C# keeps its lowest note on C#.
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Learn each chord of the trip
This is one shape of C#. In Chord & Fret, you open every position of all 3 chords in this progression along the neck — on any instrument, and hear each one. Open in Chord & Fret →
Metronome — Drill this change in time, with tap tempo and subdivisions · use it in Chord & Fret
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