Chord and FretReggae · vamp menor — Guitar
What is the Reggae · vamp menor progression?
The Reggae · vamp menor progression is F#mF#mF#mF#m → E (vi – V), in the key of A. Read as harmonic function it moves tonic → dominant, arriving home on a 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: F#m (vi, home) → E (V, time to come back). Press play and follow along — at the "time to come back" chord, notice the physical urge to hear F#m again — the home chord.
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. Folk, country and Celtic songs are built on the acoustic guitar; in reggae it chops the off-beat, and Hawaiian slack-key is its own gentle guitar tradition. Its home chord F#m keeps its lowest note on F#.
Cadences — Harmony comes to rest here — hear every cadence type and train your ear · see it in Chord and Fret
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Learn each chord of the trip
This is one shape of F#m. In Chord and Fret, you open every position of all 2 chords in this progression along the neck — on any instrument, and hear each one. Open in Chord and Fret →
Metronome — Drill this change in time, with tap tempo and subdivisions · try it in Chord and Fret
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