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Comment by hn_submit

5 days ago

Is there a logic behind this? Can you play any song with just those chords?

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JKCalhoun  5 days ago

Well, without going into music theory (which, ha ha, I am ignorant of), these chords "go together"—they're in the same "key" [1].

(And there are perhaps hundreds of songs that use the same chords [2].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%9...

[2] https://youtu.be/dFpryVMgni0

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