Lenka - trouble is your friend chorus
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- KVRian
- 523 posts since 22 Jul, 2008
hi,
Is this a famous chord progression that appear in many pop songs?
Is it a "special composing technique"
Cheers!
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- KVRist
- 441 posts since 30 Apr, 2007
The chorus progression is based on Pachelbel's Canon in D, which is an extremely famous work used at weddings and other big events and has influenced many pop songs (Vitamin C's Graduation comes to mind). I don't know if that makes it "special" or not. 
It seems the chorus here is in Eb major while the verses are in the relative minor C, which is used to nice effect.
It seems the chorus here is in Eb major while the verses are in the relative minor C, which is used to nice effect.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 523 posts since 22 Jul, 2008
That is a great track!!! Thank youMOK19 wrote:Man, I love YouTube.
Is this kind of the same stuff : pet shop boys - go west
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- KVRian
- 1084 posts since 12 Sep, 2008 from Your basement
Mmm... Taco Bell...Nystul wrote:Yes that track is totally built around the Pachelbel canon.flowdesigner wrote: Is this kind of the same stuff : pet shop boys - go west
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- KVRian
- 1048 posts since 16 Oct, 2008
Actually, it is a pretty special chord progression: it causes no comma shift.
You could play it in strict Just Intonation, that is tuning based on the audible overtones and not on abstract math like our current Western system, and it won't jump or drift off tune/out of key. You might say that it kind of just rolls around from here to there and back in the lower overtones: the ultimate loop.
These things used to be "ABC" knowledge, but are largely forgotten because of 12-tET, which fudges everything around so that the whole tuning "loops", and there are no comma shifts in whatever chord progression you might use.
However, physics and psychoacoustics don't just disappear because some Habsburg-era bourgoise wanted them to, and people, who are are naturally musical and listening creatures unless otherwise drilled not to be, still unconsciously recognize these things. So the Pachelbel progression is going stronger than ever centuries later.
You could play it in strict Just Intonation, that is tuning based on the audible overtones and not on abstract math like our current Western system, and it won't jump or drift off tune/out of key. You might say that it kind of just rolls around from here to there and back in the lower overtones: the ultimate loop.
These things used to be "ABC" knowledge, but are largely forgotten because of 12-tET, which fudges everything around so that the whole tuning "loops", and there are no comma shifts in whatever chord progression you might use.
However, physics and psychoacoustics don't just disappear because some Habsburg-era bourgoise wanted them to, and people, who are are naturally musical and listening creatures unless otherwise drilled not to be, still unconsciously recognize these things. So the Pachelbel progression is going stronger than ever centuries later.