Japan's Most Popular Chord Progression - ōdō shinkō (Patreon)

Today we are going to learn how to play the most popular chord progression in all of Japanese music, known as the Royal Road progression, this progression is used in countless J-Pop hits as well as all over Nintendo songs as well. You can find examples of this in the western world of music as well with songs like Chandelier by Sia and even Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. The chord progression has been used in all of your favorite nintendo games as well, the one that really comes to mind is Zela. So what I am going to do today is I am going to show you how to play create the progression in any key that you would like and after that I will show you some ideas to create melody over it so you can create your own J-Pop or Nintendo style hit!

Will Improve

• Your understanding of world music
• How to read a key chart
• J-Pop Music
• Anime Music
• Nintendo Music

Suggested Listening

• Yura Yura - Hearts Grow 
• Connect - ClarIS 
• Piranha Plant Lullaby - Mario 64 
• Violet City - Pokemon

More Japanese Music

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