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Saturday, May 12, 2012

[Quest] Four Chords



Okay so in this video of the Axis of Awesome, the pianist says that a lot of popular songs use the same four chords. I'm trying to figure out what those four chords are. If anyone can help me with this quest, then I would greatly appreciate it. Once I can figure out the four chords I'm going on the second part of the quest, which is record a medley of as many songs using the four chords as possible. I have all the information I know so far after the page break.

EDIT: Jake gave me the answer. It's D, G, Bm, A.

Information I know so far:
  • In the beginning of the video it shows the roman numerals: I V vi IV. This is the chord progression used for the four chords. So by figuring out I, the other chords can easily be found. 
    • For anyone that doesn't understand what I'm talking about, all songs have a key signature. The key of C major has C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C (or in solfège it is do re mi fa sol la ti do). Each of these notes can be assigned a roman numeral, and is a chord instead of a note. Uppercase roman numeral is major, lowercase is minor. In the case of C major, there would be I ii iii IV V vi viio I. So if the four chords are in the key of C major, then the chords would be C, G, Am, and F.
  •  List of songs played (by knowing this, we can look up the key for each song and find out what it is):
    • James Blunt- You're Beautiful
    • Black Eyed Peas- Where is the Love
    • Alphaville- Forever Young
    • Jason Mraz- I'm Yours
    • Train- Soul Sister
    • The Calling- Wherever You Go
    • Elton John- Can you feel the love
    • Akon- Don't matter
    • John Denver- Country roads
    • Lady gaga- paparazzi
    • U2- With or without you
    • The last goodnight- Pictures of you
    • Maroon 5- She will be loved
    • The Beatles- Let it Be
    • Bob Marley- No Woman No Cry
    • Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy
    • Men at work- Land down under
    • Americas funniest home videos theme
    • Jack Johnson- Taylor
    • Spice girls- 2 become 1
    • Aha- take on me
    • Toto- Africa
    • Kelly Clarkson- Behind these hazel eyes
    • Jason Derulo-in my head
    • Smashing pumpkins- bullet
    • Joan Osborne- One of us
    • Avril Lavigne- Complicated
    • The Offspring- self esteem
    • The Offspring- you're gonna go far kid
    • Akon- So damn beautiful
    • Timbaland- Apologize
    • Eminem- Love the way you lie
    • bon Jovi- its my life
    • Lady gaga- pokerface
    • Aqua- Barbie girl
    • RHCP- Otherside
    • Double rainbow all across the sky song
    • MGMT- Kids
    • Andrea Bocelli- time to say goodbye
    • Robert Burns- Auld Lang Syne
    • The Axis of Awesome- Birdplane
    • Missy Higgins- Scar

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