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Creative Chords & Progressions
Creative Chords & Progressions
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Transform Your Chords & Progressions From Boring and Predictable to Dreamy, Melodic, and Full of Emotion
Do you feel stuck playing the same chords over and over?
If you know a bunch of chords but struggle to turn them into expressive chord progressions, this course is for you.
Maybe you know plenty of chord shapes, and perhaps some theory too, but when you sit down to write, your hands keep returning to the same safe chords and predictable progressions, and you’re not really sure what you’re doing.
You want your music to sound and feel dreamy, bittersweet, tense, nostalgic, or unmistakably your own. But you’re not always sure which chords will create those feelings, where to use them, or what should come next.
And learning more random chord shapes often creates a different problem: so many possibilities that you become overwhelmed and you feel completely directionless.
I know that feeling well.
For years, I kept using the same shapes, defaulting to the same boring progressions, and struggling to create music that captured what I could hear in my head.
So I kept trying to learn more chords, hoping that would solve the problem.
But after more than a decade of experimentation, I realized I didn’t need to memorize a jazz book’s wall of chord charts.
Instead, I needed a simpler way to use what I already knew.
So I began grouping chords by how they sound and how they make us feel, building a smaller personal palette of sounds I genuinely loved using, and following a repeatable process for turning those sounds into complete progressions.
That process I’ve turned into Creative Chords & Progressions.
Inside the course, you’ll learn just enough theory to understand your choices, discover expressive chords organized by mood, and follow a simple five-step formula for creating progressions that feel intentional, emotional, and ones that sound like you.
Meet Creative Chords & Progressions
Understand Chord Theory
Go from guessing which chords belong together to understanding the essential theory behind keys, chord construction, and emotional function, so your choices feel intentional instead of random.
Build a Chord Palette That Sounds Like You
Stop collecting random shapes you’ll never use. Discover expressive chords grouped by mood: dreamy, bittersweet, tense, mysterious, unexpected, and more.
See How Expressive Progressions Actually Work
Explore ready-to-use progressions and discover how different chords create movement, tension, and release. Then change the chords and voicings to transform each example into an idea of your own
A Formula for Whenever You Feel Stuck
Move from a blank fretboard and endless second-guessing to a complete emotional progression with a repeatable five-step process for choosing your mood, chord centre, supporting chords, voicings, and creative twists.
Turn What You Learn into Real Music
Take new chords off the page and play them in a musical setting. Jam over ten drum backing tracks, experiment with different moods and movements, and build confidence creating progressions in real time.
Learn How To Build Beautiful Progressions Without Getting Lost in Complex Theory
Here's EVERYTHING You Get 👇
3 Modules. 41 Lessons. Hours of Content. Zero Fluff.
🎸 The Creative Chords Course – Lifetime access to the full system: take the chords you already play, expand into richer, more expressive voicings, and turn them into progressions that sound like you, not like a chord chart you copied.
🎼 Fundamental Chord Theory Mastery Module – Just enough theory (keys, and how chords are built from them) so every chord choice later in the course actually makes sense, instead of "just play this because I said so."
🧠 The Creative Chords System – Build your own chord palette across 5 mood categories (dreamy, bittersweet, tense, mysterious, unexpected) This is a curated set, not a wall of chords to memorize, with an example progression for every family so you hear them in action.
🧪 The 5-Step Creative Chords Progression Formula – Turn any mood into a finished progression, every time. A repeatable process built on simple movement patterns like Lift, Fall, and 4th Leap, so you always know your next chord instead of guessing
🎁 FREE Bonus 1 – The Creative Chords Companion Guide – Your 90+ page reference for every chord, voicing, and example progression in the course, plus FACGCE and DAEAC#E tuning charts, so you're never stuck without the shape you need.
🎁 FREE Bonus 2 – The Creative Chord Charts Quick-Reference Guide – A cheat sheet mapping every mood to its chord family, so mid-write you can find "the sad one" or "the tense one" in seconds.
🎁 FREE Bonus 3 – Practice Backing Tracks – 10 drum backing tracks to practice your palette and progressions the way you'll actually use them — playing along, not noodling alone.
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Not what you expected? No problem. Ask for your money back in the first 30 days and we'll send it right back to you.
Who's this for?
✅ You know basic chords, but every progression you write circles back to the same 4–5 shapes.
✅ You've hit a wall with chord theory before: too many options, no clear starting point, and you want something that walks you through what to learn and do step-by-step instead.
✅ You're a bedroom musician who wants to write your own emotive, feeling-first music at home, whether that's math rock, post-rock, Midwest emo, or your own thing.
✅ You want to know not just which chords sound good, but where and how to actually use them in a progression.
✅ You want to bring a fresh new approach to your ideas and songs for next band practice, a progression idea worth turning into your next song.
Who's this not for?
❌ You're brand new to guitar and don't know any chords yet, this course builds on chords you already learned and play.
FAQ
Is this a one time payment?
Yes! A one time payment gets you lifetime access to the workshop and all its content.
What do I need?
All you need is a guitar.
Can I access the course at anytime?
Yes! Once purchased, you'll have lifetime/unlimited access to the course and all materials.