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"You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon

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You Can Call Me Al - A Simple Chord Progression

The main chord that you're going to hear is an F chord, which sounds like this. And then it also has a B flat, which is the four chord, and that looks like this. So it mainly focuses on those two chords. But what it does is it sort of goes from F to B flat and in between, it plays a C,. That's the whole song. There's no bridge in this song. There is no B section. There are no minor chords. It's just one, five and four - literally basically the three most common chords in all pop music Just place back to back and played over and over and over again on a loop.

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