Mariah Carey—“All I Want for Christmas Is You”
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The Four Minor Chord in Christmas Songs
A lot of Christmas songs were written and recorded during a time when jazz and jazz adjacent genres were the contemporary styles. Creep by Radiohead is entirely built on a Ford chord progression that ends on the Four Minor. Barre I Carry uses the Four Minor in the verse, which in the key of G is a C minor seven over E flat.
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