Songs to help you recognise chords in a progression
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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The best way to think about chord progressions is in the abstract, in other words, removed from any particular key. So, rather than refering to chords with alphabetical names like "C, F, G", we can use numbers to describe their relative function in the key, "I, IV, V". And by memorising an example or two of each chord function, it can make it much easier to pick out a chord progression by ear.
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0:00 Introduction
2:04 V
3:30 IV
4:23 vi
5:15 ii
6:30 iii
7:08 bVII
8:05 II
8:55 III
9:38 VI
10:22 v
11:11 iv
12:23 bII
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"Back and forth to the fourth chord" - truly, you are turning to the punning side of the force - no bad thing of course, ^oo^
Lol
Also this is the video that gave me a Radiohead addiction
Hey David I wanted to buy the software with your link, but there is mo lifetime access. The deal is to be billed annually. Can you help?
Perfect examples, never get tired of the Beatles and Radiohead and some surprises 😄
there was no surprises here...
@@DaniloSilva-pl3sq and no alarms either
@@DaniloSilva-pl3sq I didn't expect White Rabbit for instance
@@tatjbere I literally had whiplash when he revealed the last example was White Rabbit and not Pyramid Song lol
@@matthammond3563 same
Man, David. I was trying to explain this to a kid recently and I simply couldn't explain it as wonderfully as you did. Keep inspiring not only musicians, but also teachers :)
Great video. I think "Hey There Delilah" would be another good example for the iii chord :)
Good example!
Also that evanessence song was the first example that came through my head as he played the chords
Another good trick to audiate I-iii may be "[I] Ground control to Major [iii] Tom" early in Space Oddity. Note also that the analogous line is harmonized I-III7 later, making it sound extra bright (I think) because expectations had been set..
@@jamesrodriguez3593 My Immortal? Beautiful song!
@@simonjohnston3100 exactly haha i forgot the name of that tune
This is probably one of the more useful music theory videos on RUclips I've seen . Thanks dude.
Wow, thanks!
Another good example of the I-III chord function is in "Stand by Me" by Oasis. Its main progression starts with G followed by B7.
This is the exact type of video I was looking for. Im trying to train my ear to recognize specific chord progressions and remember songs with certain chord progressions because I think it will help me alot. Thanks for the video :)
Excellent!
I am a music teacher, and your popular chord progression videos have been so helpful to me. Thanks, and if you feel like making more of those, I will love them!
The chorus of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by The Beatles (George Harrison) helps me recognize the I - III progression. The Chords are also A to C#m. Some fifths are used aswell in the chorus!
Its also in the chorus of something (A to C#m)
That would rather be the I - iii progression.
Freaking amazing!!! Basic knowledge of music in youtube is getting better and better every day because of kind souls like you. I deeply appreciate it 💖
Me as a teen kid. 1564 is the blink 182 progression lmao
I/ bII is used in flamenco very often. Thanks for share your theory knowledge! 😊
Hey David, just wanna let you know (if you ever read this comment, that is) that this is one of the worst problems I never knew I had when building my chord progressions.
With those nice examples of songs that make effects of different chord changes on their respective context clear, I started to memorize the feelings of each change and now when writing I can think of the effect I want and search around there instead of trying random chords.
Thank you very much for this invaluable content.
Thank you! I'm really glad you found the video helpful 🤩
The latter part of the video about less common chord functions is amazing -- it is how I choose my favourite songs. That dissonance gets me going emotionally and physically and those are the songs I just feel most while listening to. It's cool to know precisely what I'm responding to when listening.
I love that you add the Beatles in all your videos
This was so helpful! I love how you would continue to explain how it’s normally done vs. what you could change. I was able to follow the whole time.
How do your videos just come at the right time i swearrr
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Brilliant lesson, as always, David, and great playing on the keys. Thanks so much!
Very helpful to hear how these progressions sound in popular songs we are familiar with. Thanks David!
I instantly thought of perfect day when you started talking about the iv chord!
Great video! As a rhythm guitarist, I'm always on the lookout for some cool chord progressions to play along with to a song or even mess around and make my own chord progressions. I'll definitely use some of these ideas the next time I play! Cheers.
i love ur videos!
i couldn't get enough of your music mode videos because they just sound so cool! thanks for releasing incredibly useful and entertaining information for free!
I love the idea that some of your viewers have now heard White Rabbit for the first time and literally go down a trippy rabbit hole.
Such an excellent song!
As a guitarist, I've learned so much musical theory from you. I thank you immensely!
I have been following David for a while and David keeps outdoing himself. I follow many youtubers that do similar things but David makes it very accessible and bitesize. I always learn something very clearly out of his every video.
Thanks, David. Great video. I particularly love the I to iv change. Very melancholic.
Thank you so much for the inspiration, I have learned so much from your videos. I've enjoyed all of them ,the production and your talent for teaching are brilliant.
This is the best gift ever bc this is literally the thing I’m struggling the most with in music theory right now so this is AWESOME! Aaa perfect timing ❤️❤️❤️
I always thought Sympathy for the Devil was a wonderful use of the bVII chord. As always, great work!
Pretty much any mixolydian song is going to have that flat 7. Like Saturday night's all right for fighting for example which actually is an interesting case because it modulates back and forth between two keys between the verse and the chorus
Oh and the outro for Hey Jude is another great example!
Pretty common in rock, that mixolydian feel. Sweet Child O' Mine as well. Same I-bVII-IV chord progression, just in D instead of E.
@@victorwilburn8588 Thanks bro, I didn't know about Sweet Child O' Mine having the same chords! I always liked Sympathy for the Devil as an example because of the piano clearly outlining the I-bVII-IV.
@@jacobevanoski1221: Yep, now you can listen to both and hear the same chord functions. :) And the Slash riff is outlining the chords in the case of Sweet Child, in a way the emphasizes and links common notes between the chords.
I had always interpreted such songs as starting on the V and being V-IV-I progressions, until fairly recently when I started learning about the use of mixolydian in rock. Basically major with a flatted seventh, to go with the common use of dominant 7th chord in the roots of rock rather than the maj7 chord. I think it was Paul Davids' video on Johnny B. Goode that turned me on to this (that song does just use a basic I-IV-V blues progression, but he's playing the mixolydian scale over it, with blue notes added).
Love it David. Keep it up. I've made a point of watching your videos at the piano to follow along and pause to riff a bit. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this incredibly clear explanation and the great examples!
Excellent video David. Thank you for such a clear explanation with common examples
I must admit I'd never had thought a I > v progression would sound as sweet as that! Colour me surprised
I love that move! It's very mixolydian! You'll hear it in 'Clocks' by Coldplay
@@DavidBennettPiano Having been playing guitar for over 30 years, delving into music theory since 2018 has opened my eyes to how clever Coldplay and The Beatles were in their compositions.
I will forever love the iv chord, especially in a IV iv I progression. I've seen it in this progression many times too, and loved it every time: I, Iadd#5, I6, I7, IV, iv, I. Just so beautiful
yeah VI vi I has a great sound. and a good way to walk down chromatically with the 3rds of the first two, and the fifth of the last. e.g. C Cm G ~~~ notes E Eb D
Ending of the main Super Mario theme uses the major 4 minor 4 major 1 progression!
Yeah i love that too! One particular i like is when it happens in Desperado by the Eagles
Jar of hearts chorus I V vi IV iv (Christina Perri)
@Anna Young can u give some examples?
I’ve played music for 30 years and your videos are the absolute best explanations I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing
seeing this video at 12:15 AM legit gave me many ideas. Excited to work with these.
I've always "heard" it while playing, but good to see where it derives from. Thank you for this!
These videos are so well made with the chord charts shown on screen. Thanks for the great videos!
Thank you!
Hear hear!!
Excellent video. Thanks for the obvious work and effort in creating/sharing this!🇨🇦
Been watching your videos a lot lately. I have always loved playing keyboard for fun in my spare time, but i dont read music or understand music theory. I love how you make all these videos very informative and understandable with examples etc. So great work Keep it up and i definitely am subscribing. Cheers
i finally understand what's with the roman numbers, god bless your soul man :")
Just a few extra examples I’d like to add-
I - IV a good example is The Second Line by Stop, Inc (most New Orleans street jazz will work, but a lot of them are I7 - IV7
I - vi Scar Tissue, although there is a brief V in between them
I - bVII Sweet Child o Mine, which has the same chord progression as Hey Jude
Great video. I'm trying to learn piano and your videos have made a lot of the music make sense.
Glad to hear it!
I like the way you demonstrate the feel of different chord movements here. The one-by-one approach gives me a better grasp of how each movement of a chord is like a step to the next thing that happens in the song. Anyway, I'm understanding more of it as I go. Is this just me advancing as a student, or are your teaching skills getting really good too? Nice lesson, Sir!
Really looking forward to more of this series!
I love your videos man! You’re re a great teacher and explain music theory concepts very well. The Beatles seem to have an example for everything haha.
Great video. Thanks. I really enjoy your channel and really learn a lot. That said, I can’t believe you did a video on common chord progressions in popular music and didn’t mention I-IV-V. It’s the basis of a million blues tunes and almost as many rock and roll songs.
Always love these vids, so accessible and useful 😀
Gravity by John Mayer is another great example of I-ii (G-Am) in the intro
No, gravity is a great example of the I - II. The one and a major two. Its G-C.
@@wingerman4677 In the intro you can clearly hear an A note on the second chord. It's Am. After a few seconds, when the lead guitar comes in, it becomes G-C with an A note in the C chord, which becomes C6 (so the rest of the verses are G-C6 [I-IV6]). Check me
@@omersetty5155 ur right
You told me in 15 mins what I was looking for since years ago
So clearly man, thank you
thank you David, really well explained
This is very informative and very helpful! Thank you for this!
I love this type of videos! I always have trouble with this, super useful!
i never fail to learn something from your videos. Thank you!
David, my friend, Ray posted this in our Guitar forum. Not only he, but myself and many other of our members really liked your presentation. Thank you.
Thank you! I’m glad you like it 😀 Which Ray are you referring to? Thanks!
It helped a lot that you showed the chord progressions on the piano. I have learned a lot.
Amazing video... this was exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you so much!
This was really well done! Thank you!
Really great for ear training. Keep up the good work. Much appreciated.
Cheers!
this series really rocks! so helpful
I just love your videos. Sometimes a bit challenging for me, because I don't know the theory at all :D but slowly getting there. Thank you David :)
I love your content. But I was watching it with my guitar in my lap. Every time you'd start with the first two chords, I couldn't help but play the rest of the progression out. Remind me to watch this video again when I don't have an instrument in my hand. Lolol!
Thank you for what you do. Always a pleasure to watch your channel.
You can also use a minor4 chord right after the major 4. Radio head does it on creep, G B major C major now C minor. Beatles used that a lot too when they wrote! Great Video
Thanks David. I'm a novice, just dabbling, but your clear explanations really help me grasp the underlying structure of music I love
This is a really useful video, I often forget how each of these progressions sound!
It would be awesome if you made a video to explain the "function" or "effect" certain musical structures are used for. (WHY does White Rabbit use the root-BII progression for the entire song? To give a sense of a psychedelic high? To unease the audience? etc) Love your vids!
You'd probably have to ask Grace Slick about that
I'd say it gives it a feeling of laziness and dormancy, and that makes sense because it's the least possible amount of motion between chords (a semitone). But it also sounds somewhat tense and threatening, which can be explained because the semitone is a dissonant interval.
@@MyNameIsNeutron Death of the author?
This is what I expected from this video and didn't get.
This video is just a list of the _names of_ the chord functions, not a list of the functions. Obviously V is the name of the chord built on the fifth which shows up in Hey Jude - what's it _doing_ there?
@@AexisRai Resolving to the tonic.
Also John Williams really love the II (major 2nd) chord in his music. Especially the I - II - IV - I progression just like the Beatles 😊
Honestly, this was surprisingly helpful. I can't believe I never thought about this before. It is so common to have 'example songs for interval', but I hadn't come accros this before, thanks!
Now, I do want to point out, it may even be worth it to include some example for function beyond 'after the I'-chord. Your minor key video may address this already a bit, but maybe you can identify other common parts of chord progressions with prime examples.
Always look forward to your videos!!
amazing video, as always! if you could, also, do a version of commonly used diminished chords, and from there, possibilities on how to resolve them to different places (opening a door to even talk about modulation and stuff). that would be really cool as well. anyways, you never let me down with your videos, thank you for that!
Thank you, very helpful to my AP Music Theory Class and their ear training.
I always enjoy the way you explain and show things, very clear and your examples are genuinely helping me develop my ear. Question: is it fair to think of the chord function as like an absolute scale and the intervals are the differences between chord functions? When you compare each function to the root note, doesn't that mean the chord function is the same as the interval to the root note? Just wanting to clarify for my understanding, thanks David, patrons, and viewers!
I find that II, III, and VI are often better functionally expressed as secondary dominants, since they have notes outside the scale- i.e. II7, III7 and VI7, work as V7/V, V7/vi, and V7/ii respectively. Thus “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” (D, B, Em, A7, D) becomes I, V7/ii, ii, V7, I.
i know that slash works as a symbol for sec. dominants but isnt it for bass note too? how can we differentiate those 2
This is a really helpful video. Thank you!
Excellent! 😀😀
The *vi* is my favourite of the major scale. It creates such a melancholic and resolved feeling.
It sounds so resolved because it's basically the tonic chord of the relative minor key.
Love this serie. Keep your great work
Hey. David these videos are works of art.
I’ve been playing piano for 10+ years and have never understood the basis of the roman numerals. Never knew how they were derived. It is so simple. Thank you
This was very helpful! Thanks much 👍🏽
this was so helpful! thanks so much!
Your videos are amazing. Thank you :)
Thanks a ton! I finally think I have got a starting point to learn recognising progressions by ear
Your videos are pure gold man, keep it up!
Thank you! 😀😀😀
The closing music you did over the Patrons was BEAUTIFUL
excellent, thank you, David.
This is the most brilliant channel on You Tube! The entire world should be grooving to this knowledge instead of finding reasons to attack each other. Sorry if that was too heavy.
Great video I have made a note of all the songs but I have a slightly different list (i.e. Dance the night away for I-V) but you filled in a few holes for me, especially the examples of two chord only songs. But when you came to the 12th example I thought ah! the flat 6 (more common than a flat 2, I would say, Wonderfull World, Ain't She Sweet, Rain Until September, Everyday etc,) it's such a useful way of getting back to the V chord after a bridge, seem to come across it a lot. Looking forward minor key example, I aways find it tougher to spot chords in the minor. Always recommending these well explained and presented videos to pupils (Guitar and Uke). Good work and thanks again David and love the Beatles references.
What a pleasure ! Superb David.
Cheers!
Great lesson. Thanks!
Thanks for your work !
Thank you so much for this.
The bVII in F immediately reminded me of Rush's 'The Garden'. Great video.
thank you david
i needed this video for understanding the music
Super useful, thank you!
You’re the best. This was sooooo helpful.
Thank you!
This is the video I’ve been waiting for
Great, bring more of this videos.
Will do! 😀
Wayfaring Stranger is a good song for recognizing the i-VI chord change.
Great content, Please do more of this kind of videos
Thank you, this video is so useful.
Excellent!