MPB on ukulele
MPB on ukulele: the progressions ii-V-I and plagal (I–IV–I), each with audio on its own page. 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.
MPB is the big umbrella of Brazilian song, blending samba roots with refined harmony and storytelling lyrics. Here you'll explore the ii-V-I — in other words, the chord sequence that builds tension and resolves it like a complete sentence — and the plagal, the back-and-forth between the home chord and the fourth degree that sounds like the “amen” at the end of a hymn.
Progressions
ii-V-I plagalMy Chords & Scales: Build the genre's repertoire: saving chords and scales to the Notebook is part of Pro · open in Chord and Fret