All the chords you need for rock

Music in this episode:

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” (1981)

Aretha Franklin - “I Say A Little Prayer” (1968)

Jimi Hendrix - “Hey Joe” (1967)

Grateful Dead - “Jack Straw” (1972)

Bing Crosby - “Clementine” (1941)

Lightnin’ Hopkins - “My California” (1948)

JS Bach - Violin Partita No 3 in E Major - Prelude (1720) - performed by Viktoria Mullova

The Allman Brothers Band - “Blue Sky” (1972)

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique” - II. Adagio cantabile (1798) - performed by Daniel Barenboim

The Beatles - “A Day in the Life” (1967)

Little Simz - “Venom” (2019)

References:

The Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs corpus study

David Temperley, The Musical Language of Rock

Trevor de Clercq, The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting

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