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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 Songwriting?
The Beatles had only one song of their 27 number one songs, which was Let It Be. So it's not that you need to use those chords to make a hit. But so you're saying this is more commentary on the music industry than it is on music theory. Correct. And it's just a lesson for young songwriters. Like should they try to march to the beat of their own drummer as it were and do you use a different chord progression? Yeah. I think that people have moved on from that now. Finally, I almost need to make a video about that. Have we seen the end of one four five six and I haven't heard, you know, I'm
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