Chord & FretPop · axis rotação — Guitar
What is the Pop · axis rotação progression?
The Pop · axis rotação progression is Am → F → C → G (vi – IV – I – V), in the key of C. Read as harmonic function it moves tonic → subdominant → tonic → dominant, arriving home on a cadence. Play one chord per bar and let it loop.
Four chords, a whole story: Am (vi, home) → F (IV, the stroll) → C (I, home) → G (V, time to come back). 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.
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. From campfire pop to rock ballads and blues, the acoustic guitar is the default choice, whether you strum full chords or pick out a quiet verse. Its home chord C keeps its lowest note on C and rings 2 open strings.
Cadences — Harmony comes to rest here — hear every cadence type and train your ear · try it in Chord & Fret
Save this progression in Chord & Fret♪ The groove underneath is the tresillo: 3+3+2. Count "one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two" tapping your leg and you've found the engine of half the world's pop..
Reharmonize — Want richer substitutions? Reharmonize the progression in a tap · see it in Chord & Fret
Learn each chord of the trip
This is one shape of C. 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 · use it in Chord & Fret
When you want the next step: in the Chord & Fret app you hear, see and play every variation — on your phone, via the stores.