Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns

Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by pier25 on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:39PM (#18907961)

Yes, after all I-IV-V is the most common chord progression.

It would have been nice if the author also had analyzed chord progressions instead of single chords.

Who knows how many Pachelbel's progressions he would have found! :)

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by Terretta on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:04PM (#18908558)

> would have been nice if the author also had analyzed chord progressions instead of single chords

Last heading in this first section:

“If a song happens to use a particular chord, what chord is most likely to come next?”

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by pier25 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:54AM (#18911475)

Yeah, but that is not a complete chord progression.

I meant something like I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by sporkologist on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:54PM (#18908532)

Hotel California seems like the coolest modern version of that chord sequence, in a minor key no less.

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by baddox on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:46PM (#18908712)

The chord progression in Hotel California doesn’t seem to me to be closely related to the chord progression in Pachelbel’s Canon.

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by jacquesm on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:42AM (#18909259)

That video is hilarious.

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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by gregmac on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:24AM (#18909380)

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