Just before you work through the chord progressions, have a look at the following essential points regarding composition.

Chords in a song can be drawn from more than 1 scale

So the guitar chord progressions & melody of contemporary music styles use chords from many scales & often change from major to minor.

Scales & modes create a feel or mode in the song

This really is a useful tool to have in your musical toolkit!

Why?

Well because learning to hear the "feel" certain chords played together create will help you create the unique musical style & mood in your guitar chord progressions.

So here are essential tips that you help you in your composition:

Want to stir the emotions, bring people to tears?

Want to create a bluesy feel to your music?

Use chords from the mixolydian mode to create a major blues feel, (you can also solo with lead guitar with the major pentatonic scale as this scale is drawn from the mixolydian mode)

Why are the dorian & mixolydian modes great for creating the blues sound?

They both have a 6th note & a flat 7th note... the two notes that are integral to the Blues sound.

Want to create a jazzy feel to your music?

So for a jazz feel in a major key you could use: ionian mode, lydian mode or the major pentatonic scale.

For a jazz feel in a minor key you could use: harmonic minor or the melodic (jazz) minor scales.

So I'm sure that you agree that creating music is a heck of a lot easier, now you know the basics, right!

So now it's time to begin to work with the chords found across the 12 essential scales for guitar listen out for the feel created!

The following guitar chord progressions can be used in composition. Go through each scale or mode & practice playing all chords.