From Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" to Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting" (and 34 songs in between that!), these four chords sure get a workout! Now excuse me while I go to my Casio keyboard and hammer out another hit. See you at the Grammys!
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Wow! Very impressive video. It took me a minute or two to actually believe it.
1they are truly the axis of awesome
2umm can someone please tell collegehumor video poster that the Beatles came BEFORE Journey.
3ouch!
4broga001, I don't think they intended to say that all these bands copied from Journey, just that all of them used the same chord structure. I'm sure they just started the video with Journey because the chords come out clearly in the beginning of their song.
5That's pretty hilarious. Just shows you what 4 little chords can produce.
6I think this proves that Journey rules.
7Broga, I'm pretty sure they were joking.
8That was awesome!
9I just realized, I guess that's why they're called axis of awesome...
that's pretty amazing!
10What about this -
113 cords 70 songs.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/polymorphic
I'm sure you could find hundreds of songs with the same chord progression. It's a fairly common one, and there are only a finite number of combinations that can be made using western musical scales. This is exactly why chord progressions are not copyrightable.
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