Chord & FretSertanejo · eixo pop — Ukulele
What is the Sertanejo · eixo pop progression?
The Sertanejo · eixo pop progression is G → D → Em → C (I – V – vi – IV), in the key of G. Read as harmonic function it moves tonic → dominant → tonic → subdominant, cycling as a vamp with no full 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: G (I, home) → D (V, time to come back) → Em (vi, home) → C (IV, the stroll). Press play and follow along — at the "time to come back" chord, notice the physical urge to hear G again — the home chord.
Ukulele
With only four short strings and no bass note, the ukulele lives in a bright, high register; it sketches the chords and leaves the low end to a voice or another instrument. Brazilian styles are not the ukulele's home turf: it can carry a gentle bossa nova, but the percussive drive of samba, choro and pagode asks for more bite and low-end punch than its soft nylon strings can give. Its home chord G keeps its lowest note on D and rings 1 open string.
Circle of Fifths — See the key's diatonic chords and its secondary dominants · use it in Chord & Fret
Save this progression in Chord & Fret♪ The groove is the habanera — that drag on the second beat that tango, reggaeton and guarânia share without ever having met to agree on it..
Reharmonize — Want richer substitutions? Reharmonize the progression in a tap · try it in Chord & Fret
Learn each chord of the trip
This is one shape of G. 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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