Is there anything you can't do with four chords?

[andrewducker]

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[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Erm, they switch to a different chord pattern halfway through!

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

really? to what? There's a different rhythm, but are you sure the sequence changes?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

listened again. 4'strums' per chord in first half, 2 'strums' 2nd half. Same chord sequence(I,V,VIm,IV).

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

But different starting point.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

ah, right. yeah.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yes, they start off with E B C#m A. And then they switch to C#m A E B.
Same sequence of raw chords I suppose but different starting point. Id like to say that the second one is in a minor key and therefore in fact completely diferent, but it feels strongly like it wants to resolve to an E and I can't remember how the various songs wrap up. Given they're pop songs they probably just repeat and fade...

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I am old and I haven't heard of half of these people!

[andrewducker]

Me either? What on earth is a "U2"?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Some kind of submarine?

[soon_lee]

There were quite a few Australasian songs there that might not be globally recognisable (well mostly Australian; Bic Runga whose face graces the embed is a Kiwi and I'd argue the case for Crowded House).

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Four chords! Pah who needs four when three will do perfectly fine.

[andrewducker]

I had a feeling that I'd arrive home to discover a Quo vid :->

[crm.livejournal.com]

JESUS WEPT! I JUST FOUND OUT THAT YOU CAN PAINT NEARLY ANY PICTURE USING ONLY MIXTURES OF RED, YELLOW AND BLUE!

i really hope somone gets angrey about lack of creativity in music, i have been looking for an excuse to fire my new qualification in anger.... would anyone care to pretend, just to humor me?

[andrewducker]

If all paintings were made by the same three colours, in the same pattern, repeated, then you'd have a point there :->

[crm.livejournal.com]

hang on, just a moment here back the hell right up. so this formula applies to all music? Because i certanly didnt hear any Stravinski, Tallis, Boulez, Bach* or Tavener in all that.

[thanks, i owe you a pint]

*Bach did use this sequence, one, in one phrase of one of his trillion feuges.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Been done (although he talks about the 8-chord version of Pachabel's canon, he only ever plays the first four):

[crm.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_fifths