Thank you all for your responses...certainly a lot to digest...I get some of it on a very basic level but some of it is way over my head...definitely has opened up my eyes up as to how intricate music can actually be...I can see that if I am going to understand any of this that I need to build upon my basic understanding of the major scale and go from there...and dig deeper into the circle of fifths...I understand that on a very basic level as well...I can see how it illustrates chords in a key...but anything beyond that is a mystery to me like how it can help me build chord progressions...time to put a little bit more time into this if I am going to get...the same kind of time I put toward practice...but in the meantime, practicing popular chord progressions like I-VI-IV-V, etc. in different keys is still something I can work on...and learn the why a chord progression works as I go....george
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