Mairo Ese – You Are the Reason Chord Progression on Piano, Guitar and Keyboard.

How to play You Are the Reason: key, chords and progression

You Are the Reason by Mairo Ese keeps coming home to A minor (no sharps or flats). You need 4 chords: Am, F, C and G.

The backbone of the song is Am – F – C – G (i – VI – III – VII in A minor), the epic minor progression (i–VI–III–VII) used in many anthems. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 5th fret and play the shapes Em, C, G, D (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 75% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.

Chord diagrams

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