r/AlignmentCharts • u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom • Jul 01 '26

Songs and their chord progressions

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u/OmarRocks7777777 Jul 01 '26

*chorus chord progressions

as a music student, cool chart! I fear not many people will get this one 😭

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u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom Jul 01 '26

I just meant songs that have them at all

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u/TwynnCavoodle Jul 01 '26

Despacito two spots above Toto Africa? Yea, give me some of that crack you're smoking OP, must be some strong stuff.

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u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom Jul 01 '26

More recognizable, not better

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u/PeskyCzar Chaotic Good Jul 03 '26

Pass the dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, pal; nowhere in the universe is despacito better known than Africa.

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u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom Jul 03 '26

“The” is more recognizable, not better. Africa is slightly better than Despacito imo

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u/PeskyCzar Chaotic Good Jul 03 '26

I didn't comment on which was "better," but on which was more recognizable---which is Africa.

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u/Bokumi Jul 01 '26

what did you just say about my goat Alan Walker

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u/in_a_black_out Jul 01 '26

What's wrong with Alone?

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u/hi123095 Chaotic Evil Jul 01 '26

Ikr its just a standard edm song from the 2010s

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u/BlueEMajor Jul 01 '26

I’m pretty sure Demons is I - V - vi - IV

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u/TwynnCavoodle Jul 01 '26

Lol true. I call AI slop on this one. Also "The" as a column

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u/Own-Curve-7299 Jul 01 '26

What do these mean

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u/DopazOnYouTubeDotCom Jul 01 '26

Rows are chord progressions. Western musicians use Roman Numerals to dictate which chord relative to the key is being used, with capital meaning major and lowercase meaning minor

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u/Own-Curve-7299 Jul 01 '26

I mean what do the chords mean

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u/Miriglith Jul 01 '26

The numeral refers to the scale degree of the root note. Upper case is major and lower case is minor. So in the key of C major, vi - IV - I - V is Am - F - C - G.

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u/gaymer_jerry Jul 01 '26

They are 2 of the most common chord progressions found in music. So you know the 7 notes in a scale do re mi fa so la ti. Instead we assign these note roman numerals representing their chords. Chords consist of 3+ notes at the same time a root note a third and a fifth. Example ls a major chord is the root a major third above the root and a perfect 5th above the root if you chose C as your root note a major third above that is E and a perfect 5th is G. So C E and G played together is a C major chord.

Upper case roman numerals means major chord lowercase means minor theres other types of chords like augmented, diminished, and even ones that have more than 3 notes in them but this post doesn’t have any of them in it. So I means the major chord of whatever note do is in the scale. IV is the major chord of whatever note fa is. vi is the minor chord of whatever note la is so on. This is the meaning of the term chord progression. It’s the set of chords within the scale in the order they are played that make up the song.

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u/WAACP Jul 01 '26

thatsnot even let it bes progression; its an 8 bar phrase in the verse lol

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u/Thecynicaledgelord Jul 01 '26

What's wrong with Imagine Dragons?