This is about the simplest description of chord progressions you're going to find. There is something peculiar that people who understand music theory tend to

This is about the simplest description of chord progressions you're going to find. There is something peculiar that people who understand music theory tend to have a difficult time explaining it without stacking concepts and new terms. While I'm sure those concepts are necessary for completeness, to a beginner in becomes a brick wall, and this is blessedly direct compared to, to e.g., the linked wikipedia entry.