All the new 2-5-1 music books have a cd that plays round the circle of fifths in the order C F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb B E A D G, or reverse order, and you practice playing along the 2-5-1 chords for each of the 12 scales.

If you are a learner, the best thing to do is learn to play all 12 Major 7th chords going round the circle of fifths one after another. Then learn to play all 12 Minor 7th chords going round the circle of fifths one after another. Then learn to play all 12 Dominant 7th chords going round the circle of fifths one after another. If you can do that, then start playing the 2-5-1 chords round the circle of fifths one after another – it makes life a lot easier, otherwise if you jump straight in with playing 2-5-1 along to a circle of 5th cd, could take up anything to a year to master it.

Just trying to say if you don’t know all 12 major scales and their respective Major, Minor and dominant 7th chords – then tackling the 2-5-1 chord progression can be very difficult but not impossible.

1 – major7 chord, 2 – minor7 chord, 5 – dominant 7 chord.

check out Johnny’s improvisation courses – stuff to do with modes etc..

Improvising with the 2-5-1 chord progression is the same process as in other chord progressions (ex 1-4-5 blues progression). if you can improvise with chords in the blues chord progression, then the 2-5-1 should not be a problem.

practice scales starting at different points in the scale (classed as modes) and practice chords in different inversions over and over. To move between chords, play in between notes to join them up etc..