The Last Time

The Last Time
Artist: Eric Benet
Album: Hurricane (2005)
Key: G

Intro:
G - Em7 - CM7 - Bm7 - BbM7 - Am7 - C/D

Verse:
G - Em7 - CM7 - Bm
Am7 - C/D - G - C/D
G - Em7 - CM7 - Bm
Am7 - C/D - Dm7 - Gsus - G

Chorus 1
CM7 - Cm/Eb - G/D - Em6/C#
Am7 - Bm7 - CM7 - C/D
(do intro chords when going back to verse)

Bridge
Am7 - C/D - D - G9
Am7 - C/D - D - G9
G/B - CM7 - Bm7
BbM7 - Am7 - C/D - C#/D#

Chorus 2 (half step higher)
G# - Fm - C#M7 -Cm7
Bbm7 - C#/D# - D# - D#m7 - G# - F#m9/G#

C#M7 - C#m/E - G#/D# - Fm6/D
Bbm - Cm - C#M7 - C#/D#
G# - Fm - C#M7 - C#/D#
G# - Fm - C#M7 - C#/D#
G#

OPM

Original Pilipino Music

214 - Rivermaya

A
Araw Gabi - Regine Velasquez

H
Hinahanap hanap Kita - Rivermaya

P
Panalangin - APO Hiking Society

W
When I Met You - APO Hiking Society

Lessons

The lessons presented in this blog should equip a person to be able to read and play chords on a keyboard (piano). There is no secret to becoming a skilled musician. It is one thing to read (or watch) a tutorial and another to develop a certain skill. One must practice EVERYDAY. So if you desire to be a good musician, set aside 15-30 minutes a day for practice. Let your hands get used to playing chords. Train your ears to listen and recognize chords as well. Then one day, you'll be playing your own music, creating it from your heart!

The lessons are conducted in the assumption that the reader is a novice. So we will start with...
  • you learning how to play a major scale,
  • building different chords,
  • then then playing a chord progression
  • then playing an entire song (intro, verse, chorus, outro)
  • and work our way to music theories.
Our goal is not just for you to play a song or two, but to be able learn a song on your own, and hopefully create your own music as well.

Note: Tutorials will gradually be added so be sure to check as often as you can.

Part 1.
Half and Whole Step
Notes and Their Letter Names
Playing a Major Scale
Music as Numbers
Playing a Major Chord
Playing a Minor Chord
Adding the seventh
Playing Major seventh
Playing the Minor seventh
Playing the Ninth
Playing the Diminished chord
Playing the Augmented chord
Playing the Suspended chord
Timing
The Chord Progression

Part 2.
Inversions
Arpeggios
Simple Accompaniment
Left Hand Accompaniment
Transposition
Review

Part 3. Music Theory
The musical staff
Notes
Rests

Welcome!

Welcome to Eugene's Progressions.

A progression is a movement forward, a series with a definite pattern of advance. A chord progression is a string of changing chords with the aim of creating music. When one is able to create his own progression, and play music from his heart, I believe it's called magic!

This blog was created in the attempt to organized the chord sheets of the songs played in our worship services. I have been a church musician for quite some time and I realized the importance of 'passing the baton' to the next generation of musicians. This is a compilation of songs and their chord progressions as interpreted by the author, his friends, or some generous person from the Internet. I will try to include a video for each song to demonstrate the chord progression.

If you are looking for a 'how-to-play-a-song' then this is not quite the site for you. We simply show the progression (sequence of the chords, the timing and chord inversions) . I believe a musician should learn to develop his own style of playing. Although at first we may emulate a style, but in the end, we should learn to develop our own. If you like to play the song as it was performed, perhaps the best way is to get the music sheet of that song.

Now, let me just briefly orient you on how this blog is organized. The blog has four 'menus' that contains links for easy access to songs and tutorials.
  • Praise&Worship - collection of praise and worship
  • Popular - collection of songs of interest
  • OPM - Original Pinoy Music
  • Lessons - Piano Lessons.
Hope you'll find this blog useful. Feel free to leave a comment or if you have any questions or suggestions, you can email me at eugenesprogressions@gmail.com. You also follow us in twitter and facebook.

Note: This blog is still under construction. SOme links might not work. But we'll have it up to date in no time. Thank you.