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General Discussion => Music Talk and Showcase => General Discussion => Topic started by: ralphdspam on April 04, 2011, 10:26:39 pm
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Here's a challenge :): Think list as many songs you know that have the I vi IV V7 (C Am F G7) chord progression in any part of the song.
I will make an exception: The IV chord can be substituted with ii7, and the V7 chord can be substituted with V.
A Teenager in Love - Doc Pomus, Mort Human
Africa - Toto
Amazing - Alex Lloyd
Baby - Justin Bieber
Baby It’s Cold Outside - Frank Loesser
Baby, I’m an Anarchist! - Against Me!
Barbie Girl - Aqua
Beauty School Dropout - Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Birdplane - Axis of Awesome
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Canvas Bags - Tim Minchin
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
D’yer Mak’er - Led Zeppelin
Do That to Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille
Don’t Trust Me - 30h!0
Donna - Ritchie Valens
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
Earth Angel - The Penguins
Eve of Destruction - P. F. Sloan
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Fall at Your Feet - Crowded House
Forever Young - Alphaville
Friday - Rebecka Black
Happiness Is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
Happy Ending - Mika
Heart and Soul - Hoagy Carmichael
I Can’t Explain - The Who
I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
If I Had a Hammer - Pete Seeger, Lee Hays
If I Were a Boy - Beyonce
In the Still of the Night - Fred Parris
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Kids - MGMT
Land Down Under - Men at Work
Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran
Let it Be - The Beatles
Let’s Twist Again - Kal Mann, Dave Appell
Lovable - Sam Cooke
Love Hurts - Boudleaux Bryant
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Pickett
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley
Not Pretty Enough - Kasey Chambers
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - Albert Hammond, Diane Warren
Octopus’s Garden - The Beatles
Pictures of You - The Last Goodnight
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Poker Face - Lady Gaga
Poor Little Fool - Sharon Sheeley
Real Love - John Lennon
Runaround Sue - Dion
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Scar - Missy Higgins
Self Esteem - The Offspring
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
She Has a Girlfriend Now - Reel Big Fish
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Stand by Me - Ben King
Stay - Maurice Williams
Superman - Five for Fighting
Take on Me - A Ha
Tears on My Pillow - Sylvester Bradford and Al Lewis
The Book of Love - The Monotones
The Horses - Daryl Braithwaite
The Thin Ice - Pink Floyd
This Magic Moment - Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman
Those Magic Changes - Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
U & Ur Hand - Pink
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Patterson
When I Come Around - Green Day
Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger, Joe Hickerson
Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
With or Without You - U2
You Found Me - The Fray
You’re Beautiful - James Blunt
You’re Gonna Go Far Kid - The Offspring
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X.x sadly, being a MTVMG1 user for ages, I am kinda more used to grids when it comes to chord progression so I would really need to listen to these songs to know what is the chord progression.
(http://www.romulation.net/files/screenshots/roms/PSX/24012/s_2.jpg)
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I think I have seen a video on YouTube about the fact every song uses the same 4 chords.
Edit: found it :D
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Btw has anyone noticed how almost every eurobeat song uses the rickroll chord progression? O.O
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I kind of think of this chord progression a free/givaway progression. It sounds good, and always stays in the same scale. It is very cleverly devised. :)
Now that I think of it, I wonder who invented this progression. Unfortunately, it is probably lost in history. :(
EDIT: The rickroll chord progression is kind of weird (in a music theory standpoint) too. It starts with F, but it is in the C/Am scale. (correct me if i'm wrong)
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Nice find, Runer. That's very interesting :D
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Wikipedia calls this the "50s progression" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50s_progression).
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Thanks, Goplat. I just added the songs from Juju's Youtube video and Wikipedia. :)
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The chord progression I like is the one that has a pattern similar to the following song choruses:
Ice Mc - Give me the light
DJ Bobo - Freedom
Instant Remedy - Game On (Issue 09-89)
IIRC I think many punk songs use a similar one as '90s eurodance. Does anyone what chord progression it would be exactly, using note names?
My other favorite chord progression is more like the ones in some older Eurobeat songs where only the first half of the chorus is like rickroll but the second half is different, but specifically like this:
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Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
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I just realized that some songs have ii7 (Dm7) instead of IV (F). These songs will be accepted to the list because the ii7 chord is the same as a IV6 chord.
Happy listening! :)
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How about Rocky Raccoon? I haven't really looked at the chords for that, nor have I listened to it lately, so I'm not positive if that fits or not.
Also, In The Still of the Night.
And The Magic Moment should be This* Magic Moment.
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Added. Rockey Raccoon is not quite the progression, though.
Thanks for looking and adding to the list. :)
Also added "Tears on my Pillow". :)
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I heard a song on the radio today, and I was waiting for them to say what the name was, but they didn't. -.- I was perturbed.
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Aaah. :(
Too bad. (stupid autocorrect)
Any Astley songs?
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I just realized... Aren't most of these songs I V iv VI?
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O.O I copied a lot of the songs from this one video. I will fix the list/make an exception this week. :)/me already posted this, but it seems to have failed. If this shows up to be a double post, then you know why.
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From the video "Four Chords" by the Axis of Awesome. I know. :P I've memorized that whole thing.
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Someone Like You by Adele.
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here's a few more
Eminem (feat. Rihanna) - Low the Way You Lie (whole song)
One Republic - Apologize (whole song)
Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes (whole song except for pre-chorus and bridge)
The Offspring - Self Esteem (whole song)
most common way:
| I | V | vi | IV | (e.g. C, G, Am, F)
Gotye - Somebody that I used to know (whole song)
The Cranberries - Zombie (whole song)
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm (whole song except for between verse and chorus when the IV is strummed an additional time outside the usual progression )
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved (chorus)
Alicia Keys - No One (whole song except for bridge)
The Calling - Wherever you Will Go (whole song)
U2 - With or Without You (nearly whole song)
John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads (chorus)
Adele - Someone like you (chorus)
Pearl Jam - Last kiss (whole song)
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love (whole song)
The Bangles - Something That You Said (chorus)
Five For Fighting - Superman (nearly the whole song)
James Blunt - You're beautiful (verses)
James Blunt - Stay the Night (nearly the whole song)
Jason Mraz - I'm Your's (nearly the whole song)
Journey - Don't Stop Believing (verses and chorus, not pre-chorus)
Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough (whole song)
Laith al-Deen - Jetzt! Hier! Immer! (chorus)
The Last Goodnight - Pictures of You (chorus)
Lighthouse Family (all parts except for pre-chorus)
P!nk - Fucking Perfect (whole song)
Philipp Poisel - Froh dabei zu sein (Verses and Chorus)
The Police - Lonely (whole song)
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting (chorus)
Double Time
| I V | vi IV | I V | vi IV |
A-Ha - Take on Me (Chorus)
Adele - Someone like you (Chorus)
Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye (chorus)
Jewel - Hands (Coda)
Philipp Poisel - Für keine Kohle dieser Welt (Chorus)
Men at Work - Down Under (nearly whole song, but switch I with vi)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge (verses)
Travis - Tied to the Nineties (verses and chorus)
Negative
| vi | IV | I | V |
Eminem (feat. Rihanna) - Low the Way You Lie (whole song)
Lady Gaga - Pokerface (chorus)
One Republic - Apologize (whole song)
Philipp Poisel - Für keine Kohle dieser Welt (Verses)
Negative Double Time
| vi IV | I V | vi IV | I V |
Beyoncé - If I Were a Boy (whole song except for bridge)
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes (whole song)
Damien Rice - Rootless Tree (chorus)
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight (close to whole song)
Fefe Dubson - Stuttering (Whole Song)
Jewel - Hands (Bridge)
Joan Osborne - One of Us (Nearly Whole Song)
Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes (whole song except for pre-chorus and bridge)
The Offspring - Self Esteem (whole song)
Philipp Poisel - Wie soll ein Mensch das ertragen? (chorus)
P!nk - U + Ur Hand (chorus)
Stacie Orico - (There's Gotta Be) More to Life (chorus)
Toto - Africa (chorus)
River Flows in You (Twilight Soundtrack)
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/axis-awesome-do-new-version-4-chords-nova (http://www.novafm.com.au/video/axis-awesome-do-new-version-4-chords-nova) - new axis of awesome update with loads of new songs...
Stand By Me Ben E. King
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The I VI ii V7 is more of a progression related to jazz, mostly notably with I Got Rhythm. They're even called rhythm changes now. The full thing is: |I maj.7 VI| ii V7| I maj.7 VI| ii V7| I I7| IV iv| I6 VI| ii V7|
That's not including the bridge, though.
More modern voicings would have the VI chord be VI7b9, and would make the vi chord into a tritone sub. And these go for any song with these chords, at least in a jazz tune with rhythm changes.
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Um... "Somebody That I Used To Know" doesn't have that chord progression...I don't know where you got that from...
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Is the post above ccadem's from an actual human account or a bot, though? It seemed kinda strange that someone's first post kinda advertises an external link then the user never logins again ???
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Uh...Everything is related directly to this thread, including the link. I'm gonna say that it's not a bot.
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Yeah I just mean certain bots are pretty smart (ie the bot that commented on a Casio calc question once with a relevant answer, but put links in his post too :P). Of course it can be a real person too. I guess if staff are unsure they could check the IP or Google though.