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5 progressions (8-bar country I-IV-V, Wagon Wheel folk axis, ragtime
I-VI7-II7-V7 circle, Rising Sun 6/8 climb with corrected changes,
bluegrass I-IV-I-V) x 2 plays: open G/C-family boom-chick sets with
capo strategy, anchor-finger folk grips, barre fallbacks. Comping
documents boom-chick, Carter bass runs, Travis picking, train beat,
waltz. Sourced Lester Flatt G-run licks. Research corrections honoured
(Rising Sun is i-III-IV-VI, not Andalusian; ragtime is the full VI7
circle). Validator and build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 18:01:19 +01:00

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export default [
{
id: 'country-145',
name: 'Country IIVV (8-bar form)',
rn: ['I', 'I', 'IV', 'I', 'I', 'I', 'V7', 'I'],
degrees: [0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0],
qualities: ['maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'dom7', 'maj'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Will the Circle Be Unbroken', 'Ring of Fire — Johnny Cash'],
tip: 'The placement is the convention: IV arrives mid-phrase, V7 on the last line pulling home. Learn where the changes BREATHE, not just what they are.',
},
{
id: 'country-folk-axis',
name: 'Folk axis (Wagon Wheel loop)',
rn: ['I', 'V', 'vi', 'IV', 'I', 'V', 'IV', 'IV'],
degrees: [0, 7, 9, 5, 0, 7, 5, 5],
qualities: ['maj', 'maj', 'min', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Wagon Wheel — Old Crow Medicine Show (G shapes, capo 2)'],
tip: 'The pop axis loop in folk clothes — note the second half lands on IVIV instead of viIV. Capo 2 with G shapes is the canonical version.',
},
{
id: 'country-ragtime',
name: 'Ragtime circle (IVI7II7V7)',
rn: ['I', 'VI7', 'II7', 'V7'],
degrees: [0, 9, 2, 7],
qualities: ['maj', 'dom7', 'dom7', 'dom7'],
bars: [2, 2, 2, 2],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Salty Dog Blues — Flatt & Scruggs', "Alice's Restaurant — Arlo Guthrie", 'Tennessee Waltz (bridge)'],
tip: 'Every chord is the dominant of the next — a circle-of-fifths sled ride home. The truncated III7VI ("Hey, Good Lookin\'") is the same device minus the VI7.',
},
{
id: 'country-rising-sun',
name: 'Rising Sun (6/8 minor climb)',
rn: ['i', 'III', 'IV', 'VI', 'i', 'V'],
degrees: [0, 3, 5, 8, 0, 7],
qualities: ['min', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'min', 'maj'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'minor',
songs: ['House of the Rising Sun — The Animals'],
tip: 'Not the Andalusian descent people assume: it CLIMBS, and the major IV is borrowed Dorian colour. 6/8 time, arpeggiated, every chord one sweep of the arm.',
},
{
id: 'country-bluegrass-cycle',
name: 'Bluegrass cycle (IIVIV)',
rn: ['I', 'IV', 'I', 'V'],
degrees: [0, 5, 0, 7],
qualities: ['maj', 'maj', 'maj', 'maj'],
bars: [1, 1, 1, 1],
mode: 'major',
songs: ['Nine Pound Hammer — Merle Travis'],
tip: 'The jam-circle workhorse: back to I between every excursion. Kick it off with the last line of the chorus, end every phrase with a G-run.',
},
]