Chord Families

Suppose a song is in C Major, its chord progression will most probably contain the chords from the family of C Major.

Chord Families

Once you get famliar with chord families, finding the right chords of a song becomes easy. You just have to know how to determine the key of a song. Once that is fixed, all you have to do is start adding chords from a chord family. Suppose a song is in C Major, its chord progression will most probably contain the chords from the family of C Major.

C Major/A Minor

D Major/B Minor

E Major/C# Minor

F Major/D Minor

G Major/E Minor

A Major/F# Minor

B Major/Ab Minor