Chord & FretPagode · ciclo do pagode — Guitar
What is the Pagode · ciclo do pagode progression?
The Pagode · ciclo do pagode progression is A# → Gm → Cm → F (I – vi – ii – V), in the key of Bb. Read as harmonic function it moves tonic → tonic → subdominant → dominant, 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: A# (I, home) → Gm (vi, home) → Cm (ii, the stroll) → F (V, time to come back). Press play and follow along — at the "time to come back" chord, notice the physical urge to hear A# again — the home chord.
Guitar
On the acoustic guitar you hold the whole song in your hands: the low sixth string lays down a bass note while the higher strings build the chord above it. The acoustic guitar sits at the very heart of Brazilian music: bossa nova was practically invented on it, and it carries samba, choro and MPB with equal ease. Its home chord A# keeps its lowest note on A#.
Cadences — Harmony comes to rest here — hear every cadence type and train your ear · see it in Chord & Fret
Save this progression in Chord & FretReharmonize — Want richer substitutions? Reharmonize the progression in a tap · use it in Chord & Fret
Learn each chord of the trip
This is one shape of A#. In Chord & Fret, you open every position of all 4 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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