How Paul Simon wrote the PERFECT chord progression

Summary by Krater

The video demonstrates how to expand a basic chord progression for the song "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" across four increasingly complex levels, adding sevenths, inversions, and diminished chords for a richer sound.

From the video

Answers: How do you play chord progressions for 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover on guitar?

• Andalusian cadence
• Seventh chords
• Slash chords
• Diminished chords
• Augmented chords
• Guitar chord progressions
• 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover chord progression

What it concludes

• Level 1 uses basic chords like E minor, D, C, and B.
• Level 2 upgrades triads to seventh chords and uses first inversions like slash chords.
• Level 3 introduces second time around tension using D sharp diminished and B seventh flat nine chords.
• Level 4 slides diminished chords up three frets to play augmented chords with identical notes.