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What happened to all the chords?
Here, Ben Morss explores in detail why songs featuring multiple chord progressions have become such a rarity in today’s Top 40 songs, with single-progression tracks now largely ruling the roost .
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Single-Progression Songs
These days, a typical Top 40 song is built on a single chord progression. By this, I mean that the same pattern of chords repeats from the beginning of the song until its end. For convenience, let’s call songs like this
“single-progression.” Songs in which the chord progression changes significantly, we’ll call ....

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