: How to use Jim Fleser's chord wheel for minor progressions? I'm using the chord wheel by Jim Fleser to try figure out some chords that would go well with a baseline I played. But, I don't understand how minor progressions

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Here’s what you do: put the minor Key you want in the square directly above And to the right of the KEY Square.

For example if you want the chords for the key of Aminor, place Am in the square I mentioned. As you can see C is in the KEY square and the chords are the same as C major

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Chord wheels are quite a nice idea - extensions of the cycle of fourths/fifths.

It's far better, though, to have a lot of that information in your head. Get to know the cycle, also get to know what chord families consist of, and you've pretty well got the question answered, but in all keys, not just Am.

A simple way to find the chords that immediately fit into Am is to find the relative major, which is C. Then the six main chords in that key are C, F, G, Am, Dm, and Em. E major also works often in Am, being the dominant.

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Follow @Tim 's advice and get "that information into your head" without the Chord Wheel. @Alvaro GV is correct about how the Chord Wheel works.
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The Quick Start Guide for the Chord Wheel focuses almost entirely on major keys. Minor (and other modes) are discussed on the last page in very little detail. The explanation for minor is that it "uses the same chords" as the relative major, and that you can figure out the minor scale and corresponding chords by treating the vi chord from major as the i chord in minor, and renumbering the remaining chords correspondingly. This is true as far as it goes, but a) puts all the work on the user and b) entirely ignores how chords typically work in minor keys: specifically, the raised seventh. According to the Chord Wheel, the v chord in A minor is E minor, which is true, except that in practice it's very often E Major.
The official site for the Chord Wheel contains much the same information.
IMO, the Chord Wheel is useless for understanding anything other than major keys.