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- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+103Seems like Journey is the origin of all pop music. Sweet.
- StellarlyAstral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63I want to be that guy sitting on the couch in the backround...
On another note(not intended), there are very very very many songs with the same chords. My favorite chord progression G Em C D is the basis of a LOT of love songs.
Examples, Unchained Melody has that progression, Last Kiss has that progression, and Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. The Police's Every Breath You Take also uses a variant of the progression. Awesome video, very good thing about music to acknowledge.
DIGG! - martz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49From the comments section of that video (i didn't find these):
1) Blink 182 - "Adam's Song"
2) Beccy Cole - "Am I Not Pretty Enough"
3) Something about "amazing"?
4) The Calling - "Wherever You Will Go"
5) Bush - "Glycerine"
6) Tea Party - "Heaven Coming Down"
7) Five For Fighting - "Superman (It's Not Easy)"
8) Lighthouse Family "High"
9) Bic Runga "Sway" (the song from American Pie)
10) Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Soul to Squeeze" (Great song)
11) Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
12) U2 - "With Or Without You"
13) Crowded Horse - "Fall At Your Feet"
14) Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"
15) Missy Higgins - "Scar"
*Dramatic pause*
16) John Lennon - "Let It Be"
17) Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
18) Michael Jackson - "Man In The Mirror"
19) Elton John - "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" - jonasf, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46And soon we will discover that all blues songs have the same progression...
Cool video, nonetheless. - ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33They go to the trouble of a 2-camera shoot, and yet don't think to ask the guy in the background to politely turn the TV off for a few minutes!
- dono169, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32His roommate is just playing video games in the corner as if this is a daily occurrence.
- MusicalGenius, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33@Klisk, You are an idiot. I mean there are dumb people everywhere but you beat them all. First I am a pianist:) Theory makes me dumb I'm sure. If DaVinci never learned skill and technique in painting would he have been as good as he was? NO! what a stupid thing to say. Theory does NOTHING but make me smarter and understand music in a deeper way. If someone is limited to 4 chords in all they write, they are not a real musician. The more you learn, the more freedom it gives you to truly create art and express yourself. You shouldn't comment on something you absolutely no NOTHING of. Truly what a moron. Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Bach, Liszt... do these men suck because they have more knowledge in music than todays pop artists? You are a fool. Music is something I understand well, that's why I don't profess to know whats better for an architect or some other art or hobby or skill to learn.
- lmushl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29It's cute but it's not accurate. It WORKS but it's not "right" - the melodic lines Fit over the chords but do not necessarily have the same Harmonic Progression in actual context. An example is Adam's song which has a verse progression of I - IV - vi - IV, which is in fact close to the I - V - vi - IV he's using, close enough to make it sound like it works, and it works. But it's fudging the truth.
Yeah though, I - V - vi - IV is wildly popular. It won prom king AND queen. - KJSatz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28It was inherently in there :).
- lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Actually, the technical term for that chord progression should not be restricted to G.
It is: I vi IV V
This can be attributed to other famous keys. (like E C#m A B) - MrPerfect, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29EveryBody Loves Journey!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25direct link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s13sASS5F4 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24His voice is a hell of a lot better than mine.. and most peoples' for that matter. Quit your bitching.
- FlapJaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Some of those songs he sung were before Journey.. but yeah, Don't Stop Believing is a perfect piano version of the chord progression.
- Etheo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Progression of chords isn't what make the song unique, it's how you make use of it and how the melody flows with it that matters. Besides, I think a few songs were actually in different keys.
- FluxHarmonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Tonic.
Tonic.
Subdominant.
Dominant.
Repeat. - FluxHarmonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Ha! I am dumb.
He is playing:
Eb (Ima tonic)
Bb (Vma dominant)
Cmi (ivmi tonic)
Ab (VIma subdominant)
Clever. Way to play in a key a half-step up from open guitar chords. - Nevrast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Ok, first we have someone saying Let it Be is a John Lennon song (I know it wasn't the original poster and he got it from somewhere else), then the 'correction' to that implies that Lennon actually did write it.
It's a McCartney song, folks. Let It Be is a Beatles song written by Paul McCartney. Is everything straight now?
// defender against Beatles misinformation. - thevanin, on 12/20/2008, -0/+14Dugg for the rasterbated poster in the background!
- alexpigment, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19come on. journey's "don't stop believing" has to be in there. he was playing the piano EXACTLY like the song
- ochants76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14for some reason i always thought diatonic music had 12 notes.....abcdefg=7..plus the modifiers of sharps and flats=5.....7+5=12 i think
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Know what I have never understood? My wife is a huge Journey fan, but she hates Steve Perry with a passion. How exactly does that work? I have asked her to explain it to me, but she just says "that's how it is." Even after 12 years of marriage, chicks are confusing.
- dugR, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17yea seriously, i thought this was common knowledge. Oh no! people are soloing based off the same blues scale, what copiers.
- noots, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12not only is he sitting on a beanie, he's on a 360... not many people get to game to a live set(!)
- martz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11later in the comments, missed the edit window
2) Kasey Chambers - "Am I Not Pretty Enough"
3) Alex Lloyd - "Amazing" - ochants76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12There are actually 12 notes needed by diatonic music, the 7 letter names can also be given a modifier. The two main modifiers are sharps and flats which respectively raise or lower the pitch of a note by a semitone. These are used to create the additional five notes necessary to complete the chromatic scale. The sharp symbol is ♯ (similar to the pound symbol, #), the flat symbol is ♭ (similar to a lower-case italic b). These accidentals are written after the note name; for example F♯ represents the note F sharp, B♭ is B flat.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That'd be so fitting if he was playing Guitar Hero.
- cards, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Let It Be is a Beatles song, not a Lennon song...and please don't say, "yeah but Lennon wrote it", because the other songs aren't listed with their composers.
- dodoporridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I thought he had an excellent voice.
- abadbronc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'm ashamed of you two.
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit. - humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -4/+12Don't forget the brown note
- fatalfury, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I love the Family guy episode with the Journey karaoke lol
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10+digg for journey
- luckyscs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Can someone post a list of the songs. I haven't heard a bunch of them.
- seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11don't tell anyone about the ii V7 I progression that ***** is top secret.
- Kniggit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9If you need more proof that modern music is bad, you should listen to this Nickelback compilation where they put "How You Remind Me" on the right channel playing at the same time as "Someday" on the left.
http://www.riserock.com/xmas/nickelbacksucks.mp3 - samk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I was waiting the whole time for him to start singing, "Just a small town girl..."
- ziki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7wow, i knew there was a reason i hated nickelback
- EricDraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Unless, of course he was alternately tuned a half-step down. The keys he strikes on the keyboard are in E, not Eb.
- NoShameInc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7A band called Zebrahead actually did this live
http://www.bloodylag.com/disco/download/fourchordwonder.mp3 - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You and most other people also don't post videos of your singing to the internet. At least I hope not if you're worse than that. You are right though, I shouldn't be an elitist bastard.
- skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Even the simple fact that he could sing on key means his voice is probably better than most.
- bigd063, on 10/12/2007, -1/+510 Dollars to the man who can tell me what game the guy on the beanbag chair is playing.
- jumanous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5damn that guys voice is crap
- gpit2286, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Some comments on the comments.
There are 12 Notes in western music... abcdefg and an extra note between a/b, c/d, d/e, f/g, g/a. There are 4 basic chords in western music. Major, Minor, diminished, augmented. From this, there are 48 possible chord combinations. As modern music progresses, they are starting to break the rules of which chords HAVE to go after/before what ever chords. So lets say... Any chord can go after any chord. My calculator tells me that there is (48*47) 2256 combinations. Beyond that.. most chord progressions are 3 chords long. so... (48*47*46) 103776 possible chord progressions.
@twinklyJesus
Maybe not infinite, but there's sure a bunch of them people can sit down and try.
@MusicalGenius
When we look at music.. from the beginning... we go from no chords.. to single leading tone cadences... double leading tone cadences... phrygian cadences... plagal cadences... and so on and so forth. If we take a second and look at it deeper. Single leading tone cadences used by Dufay and others of that time area are almost the same as V - I cadences in today's music. (The third goes up by half step and the 5th goes down by step.) Moving to Bach and Mozart... They used V-I cadences out the wazoo. Moving on.. Beethoven knew the power of V-I cadences, and used them a lot. Most of Beethoven's symphonies end with V-I-V-I-V-I. The list goes on and on. The important thing you have to remember though.. Composers don't compose with theory. They compose what they hear. If Miles Davis played a solo during the 1600's to any person then, he would have been condemned because people didn't hear flat 9's, Sharp #11's, etc. (Well, Bach used them but... it was Bach) - eqrunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4come on, he is just calling out songs that have a 4 beat measure that are slow tempo songs. You could sing any song to what he was playing
- Dwarfthemike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i like how people sing without an accent.....
- Aussie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Let it be" is a McCartney song. He sang it, lived it, breathed it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
Many of the songs are by Australian artists, if you are unfamiliar with some of them. - KJSatz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G#
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