Drop voicings

As far as putting together an earcatching chord progression is concerned, there’s nothing wrong with keeping things simple and using basic chords. After all, most of the best, most-enduring pop songs are based on the simplest of progressions using just a few chords.

However, that doesn’t mean that you have to stick to the original root position form of each chord every time. One way of switching things up is by using inversions, which was covered in an earlier Easy Guide, but you can take things even further by applying a second technique in conjunction with this, known as drop voicings.

Drop voicings are a great way of spicing up what would otherwise