Chords in the Key of A Minor
Every diatonic triad and seventh chord in A minor, with the progressions built from them. Free. No sign-up.
Key facts
Diatonic triads
Seventh chords
Stack one more scale tone on each triad and you get the seventh chords — same key, more color.
Common progressions in A minor
i–VI–III–VII
Am – F – C – G
The minor pop loop — same four chords as the major axis, started from the minor side.
i–iv–v
Am – Dm – Em
The minor blues shape — all three chords stay minor in the natural scale.
i–VII–VI
Am – G – F
The descending rock lament, one whole step at a time.
i–iv–VII–III
Am – Dm – G – C
A circle-of-fifths descent — each root falls a fifth to the next.
How the key of A minor works
A Minor carries no sharps or flats — all seven notes are naturals. The scale runs A–B–C–D–E–F–G, and stacking every other note of that scale builds the seven chords above without borrowing a single note from outside the key.
C Major is the relative major: identical key signature, identical seven chords. Treat C — the III chord here — as home base and you are in C major without changing a note.
The parallel major, A Major, keeps the same root but raises the third, sixth, and seventh — its signature shifts to three sharps (F#, C# and G#). Moving a section from minor to parallel major is one of the oldest brightness tricks in songwriting.
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