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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Chord Progression in a Song?
The first thing is actually a melody in a song. You cannot figure out the chord progression from the melody unless it's Bach or Beethoven or a classical. Depends what the melody is. But usually for pop songs, you can't tell what the chord progression is necessarily because there's a lot of different possibilities. Some songs really describe the chord progression in the melody very clearly.
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