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I don't care what anyone says, these four chords are great. Get 40% off CuriosityStream and a free Nebula account: http://www.curiositystream.com/12tone and use promo code "12tone" I'm sure you've all seen the Axis of Awesome video where they show that every hit song of the last few decades uses this one four-chord progression. For a lot of people, this looked like proof that pop music is stale and unoriginal, but as a music theorist, I have a slightly different take. If so many songs are using this same progression, then the obvious question to me is... why? Clearly there's something great about these chords, but what is it, and why do so many artists in so many genres feel drawn to them? What makes them so great? Patricia's video: https://youtu.be/K-XSTSnqXxo My chord-loop video: https://youtu.be/JvyChMVvqnQ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Merch: http://standard.tv/12tone Discord: https://discord.gg/pq2QBEw Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/12tonevideos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/12tonevideos/ Email: 12tonevideos@gmail.com Last: https://youtu.be/q0QqS8QOErA Script: https://tinyurl.com/y2oxr6va Huge thanks to our Elephant of the Month Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Duck Howard Levine Ron Jones Brian Etheredge Khristofor Saraga Paul Ward Len Lanphar Ken Arnold Elaine Pratt William (Bill) Boston Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Christopher Lucas Andrew Beals Dov Zazkis Hendrik Payer Thomas Morley Jacob Helwig Davis Sprague Darius Rudominer Alex Knauth Braum Meakes Hendrik Stüwe Dan Bonelli Kevin Boyce Allyson Luke Kevin Wilamowski Nicholas Lennox And thanks as well to Henry Reich, Gabi Ghita, Owen Campbell-Moore, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Oliver, Anna Work, Bina Thiessen, Adam Neely, nico, Rick Lees, Dave Mayer, Paul Quine, CodenaCrow, Nikolay Semyonov, Arnas, Caroline Simpson, Favrion The Man, Michael Alan Dorman, Dmitry Jemerov, Michael McCormick, Blake Boyd, Luke Rihn, Charles Gaskell, Ian Seymour, Trevor, Tom Evans, Elliot Jay O'Neill, Max Wanderman, Chris Borland, Alex Atanasyan, Elliot Burke, JH, Tim S., Elias Simon, David Conrad, Jerry D. Brown, Chris Chapin, Lamadesbois, Ohad Lutzky, Jake Lizzio, James A. Thornton, Benjamin Cooper, Ken Bauso, Brian Dinger, Todd Davidson, Stefan Strohmaier, Shadow Kat, Adam Wurstmann, Kelsey Freese, Angela Flierman, Richard T. Anderson, Kevin Johnson, Peter Leventis, Ryan, Matthew Kallend, Rodrigo Roman, Jeremy Zolner, Patrick Callier, Danny, Francois LaPlante, Volker Wegert, Joshua Gleitze, Britt Ratliff, ml cohen, Darzzr, Charles Hill, Alexey Fedotov, Joshua La Macchia, Alex Keeny, Emilio Assteves, Valentin Lupachev, John Bejarano, Aaron Epstein, Blake White, Phillip N, Chris Connett, Scott Frazer, Niko Albertus, Luke Wever, Gary Butterfield, Kenneth Kousen, James, h2g2guy, W. Dennis Sorrell, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Connor Shannon, Melvin Martis, max thomas, Professor Elliot, Jozef Paffen, Jamie Price, Red Uncle, Doug Nottingham, Roming 22, Nicholas Wolf, Scott Howarth, Andrew Engel, Robert Beach, ZagOnEm, Peter Brinkman, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, Tuna, Hexa Midine, Mathew Wolak, T, Lincoln Mendell, Vincent Engler, Sam Rezek, Matt McKegg, Beth Martyn, Lucas Augusto, Marcus Doyle, Caitlin Olsen, Naomi Ostriker, Alex Mole, NoticeMK, Anna, Evan Satinsky, James Little, RaptorCat, Kaisai Morihito, Jigglypuffer, leftaroundabout, Jens Schäfer, Mikely Whiplash, room34, Austin Amberg, Francisco Rodrigues, Elizabeth, Michael Tsuk, Betsy, Stephen Jones, Tonya Custis, Mike Lin, Dave Shapiro, Jacopo Cascioli, David Van der Linden, Carter Stoddard, ThoraSTooth, Robert McIntosh, Brandon Legawiec, Brx, Fernando Gonzalez, CoryC, Rafael Martinez Salas, Walther, Jim Hayes, Evgeni Kunev, Graeme Lewis, Jake Sand, Kayla Sparks, Max Glass, Alon Kellner, Özgür Kesim, Rob Hardy, Patrick Chieppe, Eric Stark, Jon Prudhomme, David Haughn, Gordon Dell, Aditya Baradwaj, Matt Ivaliotes, Yuval Filmus, Byron DeLaBarre, Matty Crocker, anemamata, Brian Miller, Lee-orr Orbach, Eric Plume, Kevin Pierce, Jon Hancock, Richard Goldberg, Caleb Meyer, Juan Madrigal, Jason Peterson, Peggy Youell, EJ Hambleton, Mark Henning, Byron Williams, Symmetry, Jos Mulder, Daryl Banttari, Tarragon Eames, J.T. Vandenbree, David Taylor, John Carter, Cereus, Marcus Radloff, Wayne Robinson, kay rhodes, Gabriel Totusek, Geoffrey Edwards, Dragix PL, Nicolas Gort Freitas, SecretKittehs, Mnemosyne Music, and AkselA! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!