Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
🎹 5 Awesome Chord Progressions You Should Know!
In this tutorial, Tom breaks down 5 piano chord progressions and shows how to turn them into powerful tools for piano practice, smooth transitions, and confident improvisation on piano.
These progressions are essential for building strong harmonic awareness and fluid movement between piano chords.
What you’ll learn in this video:
- 5 essential chord progressions piano players should have under their fingers
- How to make chord transitions smooth, connected, and musical
- How to make piano chords practice efficient using patterns
- Using the circle of fifths progressions to master all 12 keys
- How to master scales using scale chord progressions
- Applying these progressions to improvisation piano
- Turning chord work into creative piano practice, not just drills.
Tom also shows how these progressions naturally support chords practice on piano, helping you link harmony, scales, and improvisation into one cohesive routine. Whether you’re practicing technique, harmony, or creativity, these progressions will spice up your piano practice fast.
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VIDEO BREAKDOWN:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 First progression
04:33 Second progression
09:17 Variation of second progression
13:12 Third progression
17:44 Fourth progression
21:18 Fifth progression
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👇 If you would like to learn effective and fun piano chord warmups, watch this tutorial next:
youtube.com/watch?v=DGQcZl_XA-M&list=PLDqNslPG6e1IbTdTGk5XsSC3v8_F9kdD1&index=1
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🎓 Join our Flagship Course, THE COMPLETE MUSICIAN COURSE with Tom Donald:
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🔔 If you enjoyed this chord progressions tutorial and would like to get more top tips on learning piano, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel right here:
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Credits:
Filmed by Josh Adams.
Edited by Charlie Coe.
youtu.be/xQCHGvROG3I
#londoncontemporaryschoolofpiano #chordprogressions #pianotutorial
🎹 5 Awesome Chord Progressions You Should Know!
In this tutorial, Tom breaks down 5 piano chord progressions and shows how to turn them into powerful tools for piano practice, smooth transitions, and confident improvisation on piano.
These progressions are essential for building strong harmonic awareness and fluid movement between piano chords.
What you’ll learn in this video:
- 5 essential chord progressions piano players should have under their fingers
- How to make chord transitions smooth, connected, and musical
- How to make piano chords practice efficient using patterns
- Using the circle of fifths progressions to master all 12 keys
- How to master scales using scale chord progressions
- Applying these progressions to improvisation piano
- Turning chord work into creative piano practice, not just drills.
Tom also shows how these progressions naturally support chords practice on piano, helping you link harmony, scales, and improvisation into one cohesive routine. Whether you’re practicing technique, harmony, or creativity, these progressions will spice up your piano practice fast.
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VIDEO BREAKDOWN:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 First progression
04:33 Second progression
09:17 Variation of second progression
13:12 Third progression
17:44 Fourth progression
21:18 Fifth progression
—————————————————————————
👇 If you would like to learn effective and fun piano chord warmups, watch this tutorial next:
youtube.com/watch?v=DGQcZl_XA-M&list=PLDqNslPG6e1IbTdTGk5XsSC3v8_F9kdD1&index=1
🎁 Claim your FREE gift - RESOURCES PACK - by getting in touch with us at London Contemporary School of Piano so that we can help you solve your challenges and accelerate you progress at the piano:
contemporaryschoolofpiano.com
🎓 Get Your GROOVE COURSE to access all the resources you need to master piano grooves and expand your piano groove vocabulary:
lcsp.samcart.com/products/groove-mastery-everyday
🎓 Join our Flagship Course, THE COMPLETE MUSICIAN COURSE with Tom Donald:
contemporaryschoolofpiano.com/the-complete-musician
🔔 If you enjoyed this chord progressions tutorial and would like to get more top tips on learning piano, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel right here:
youtube.com/channel/UCZWqaBf6VLuD0cSKF4cukPg?sub_confirmation=1
Credits:
Filmed by Josh Adams.
Edited by Charlie Coe.
youtu.be/xQCHGvROG3I
#londoncontemporaryschoolofpiano #chordprogressions #pianotutorial
