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I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« on: April 04, 2011, 10:26:39 pm »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2011, 10:56:48 pm »
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.

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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2011, 10:58:18 pm »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2011, 10:59:09 pm »
Btw has anyone noticed how almost every eurobeat song uses the rickroll chord progression? O.O
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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2011, 11:01:37 pm »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2011, 11:08:49 pm »
Nice find, Runer. That's very interesting :D
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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2011, 11:10:29 pm »
Wikipedia calls this the "50s progression".
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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2011, 11:40:55 pm »
Thanks, Goplat. I just added the songs from Juju's Youtube video and Wikipedia. :)
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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2011, 12:51:45 am »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2011, 05:47:31 am »
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2011, 08:50:48 pm »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 06:42:54 am »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2011, 12:06:11 am »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2011, 02:17:38 am »
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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Re: I vi IV V7 Chord Progression Song List
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2011, 02:21:11 am »
Aaah.  :(
Too bad.  (stupid autocorrect)

Any Astley songs?
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