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Gospel · subida do IV — Electric guitar

What is the Gospel · subida do IV progression?

The Gospel · subida do IV progression is F# → G# → A#m (IV – V – vi), 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.

Good music works like a good walk: you leave, get a little lost on purpose, and come back. The map of this one: F# (IV, the stroll) → G# (V, time to come back) → A#m (vi, home). Press play and follow along — at the "time to come back" chord, notice the physical urge to hear F# again — the home chord.

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 F# keeps its lowest note on F#.

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Reharmonize — Want richer substitutions? Reharmonize the progression in a tap · see it in Chord & Fret

Learn each chord of the trip

F# · G# · A#m

F#, 2 4 4 3 2 2F#134211F#C#F#A#C#F#

This is one shape of F#. 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 · open in Chord & Fret

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