Exploring Chord Progressions Through the Circle of Fifths

Music in this episode:

Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" (1978)

The Beatles - "You Never Give Me Your Money" (1969)

JS Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 - I. Allegro (1721) performed by Henryk Szeryng, Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Michala Petri, Heinz Holliger & André Bernard

JS Bach - Partita No. 2 In D Minor, BWV 1004 V. Ciaconna (c. 1720) performed by Viktoria Mullova

JS Bach - Lute Suite in C minor, BWV 997 (1737) performed by Hopkinson Smith (I mistakenly say it’s in G minor)

Ella Fitzgerald - "I Got Rhythm" (1959)

Frank Sinatra - "Fly Me To The Moon" (1964)

Cannonball Adderley - "Autumn Leaves" (1958)

Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (1973)

Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why" (2002)

Read more about circle of fifths sequences and about the circle of fifths itself. Don’t forget that the circle of fifths is a lie.