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"Killing Me Softly With His Song," as sung by Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack, & Lori Lieberman

Strong Songs

CHAPTER

The Chord Progression of a Song

"I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style," the singer's lyrics say. The melody underneath that phrase is centered around in a five major chord,. It does a two, and then a five, and then an A flat - which is as common a chord progression as there is to move around the circle of fourths. "The second phrase starts very similarly, it's a two to five in the harmony and the melody", she says.

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