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Four Chords, 36 Songs

Tuesday January 20, 2009 at 02:00 PM

We all know there are certain chord progressions that get more use than others.  I dare you to find one with more songs applied to it than this one.  As best I can tell it's a 1-4-6-5.  Am I right?  (Compiled by Axis of Awesome)

 

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2 Comments:
John Farmer said:
Tuesday January 20, 2009 at 08:14 PM

Nice work Axis. It's actually a 1-5-6-4 progression. You probably just twisted that around to see who was paying attention right? And for some of those songs, it was a 6-4-1-5, which is the same thing starting at a different point. I wonder if you can find any songs that use this progression starting on the 4, so it's 4-1-5-6? Or on the 5, so it's 5-6-4-1?

David R. said:
Wednesday January 21, 2009 at 02:51 PM

@John: Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" is 5-6-(3)-4-1.

Reminded me of the Pachelbel rant video.Between the Pachelbel chord changes and 1-5-6-4 in various forms, I guess we've accounted for a good 2/3 of pop music there!

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