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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