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Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Four Cord Progressions

In musical terms, this is called functional harmony. It's sort of like story ark of a character in a fairy tale. They begin at home, and then there's some kind of tension rit you reach a climax. In the case of the four chords, that journey goes, one, five, six, four. Each chord is a different beat in the story. One of the earliest examples of the four cords is the teddy bears. To know him is to love him. No no oim is to lvoe lo juss the king sang over the four chords. And always on my mind, maybe dmetri, what is e bob marley's no woman

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