There are certain chord progressions that are steadfast stalwarts in pop music because of their catchy familiarity. The focus in this article is the I-IV-V. I-IV-V, if you don’t know is 1 ...

They all have DYNAMITE chord progressions. Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel and the Beatles are right up there with Gershwin and Rogers and Hammerstein, in my book. How can you write like them? Watch and see.

A Short History of Pop Harmony The pillars of the ... The key and the chord progression have been updated in the e-book. 26) “Clocks” – The first chord is Eb major, rather than Eb minor ...

This palette of chords can produce millions of combinations, which is why so many classic pop songs can be boiled down to relatively simple progressions of basic chords like these. Rhythmically ...

The presence of a well-crafted and performed chord progression can often be the glue that gels the song together. If executed well, it should support your melody and lyric, while grabbing ...

A great way to get started writing a song is to use a well-known chord progression. Certain progressions have been used thousands of times throughout the history of recorded music, so there’s no ...

Almost every song in the pop charts is built around the same ... The reasons that the progression of I, IV, V is so pleasing to the human ear is that those chords are built upon the three most ...

The chord progressions in Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking ... like “Perfect” and “Photograph” have become streaming-era pop standards. Led Zeppelin is a classic-rock colossus whose molten ...