Songs that use the Magnolia chord progression

[@angeldiaz762]

"Desperately futile attempt to avoid a copyright claim" made me cackle, welcome to the KZbin experience!

[@ImMattFromAus]

The Eagles diss cracks me up 😂

[@neilhauser4170]

You could say it was a desperado attempt

[@nosson77]

The coolest chord progression I've ever seen is | C CM7 | C7 F | Fm C | D D F C | which sounds amazing but also has this cool feature where notes are going down in semitones from C note although till the E note. That's a lot of semitones in a row.

[@vic1ous511]

My favorite so far is Dm Am B A Not sure how it's called but I believe it's iv i II I Whenever I hear it I immediately recognize it, pretty sure Rammstein Zeit and Amorphis Tuonela use this :)

[@ombrenightcores]

@@nosson77 This chord progression reminds me of a song I can’t remember the name of, so I guess I’ll ask where were the times you’ve heard it to jog my memory? (I love this one too by the way)

[@nosson77]

@@ombrenightcores It's not a song that's main stream, it's just a song I heard growing up and then someone showed me the chords and I forgot it's name

[@ombrenightcores]

@@nosson77 Ugh, that sucks. I’m always looking for new music

[@daisychannel2002]

I love progressions like this so much

[@shocksystem8675]

Same

[@thealextrifier]

I never imagined songs like Build Me Up Buttercup and Part of Your World sounding similar!!! Thanks David.

[@Acceleronics]

The moment you finished your first run through the chord progression on your keyboard, I thought "I know a song like that! But what is it exactly?" Then you played a snippet from Build Me Up Buttercup and I said, "That's it!" I'm old enough to have heard that song on the radio when it was new. I never liked it, but I didn't forget it! The chord progression is pretty.

[@MuzixMaker]

Me too!

[@JackomoSVK]

I love these chord progression videos, I want more.. 🙏

[@ombrenightcores]

Unrelated, but I love seeing people whose favorite artists are The Beatles and Radiohead also like artists like Phoebe Bridgets and Lana Del Rey. I’m so used to KZbinrs saying “I like this genre and this genre only. Do not ask me to listen to anything else,” that it’s nice to see people like various types of music

[@grahamdowney5550]

Which KZbinrs say that?

[@ombrenightcores]

@@grahamdowney5550 Typically the ones who are very music-focused, especially music theory-focused, are pretty open minded. But there are a lot of channels that are like “ALL MUSIC IS SOULLESS EXCEPT CLASSIC PROG ROCK,” or “EVERYTHING EXCEPT HIP HOP IS TRASH” very confidently, and they often are quick to say something is bad either before they listen to it or because in their particular group it’s uncool to like it so they just immediately flock to saying how bad it is. And, of course, “I like a little bit of everything” is now considered fence sitting, so people are afraid to reach out. It’s just that a lot of channels that show up on my recc are extremely elitist and its nice to see someone open minded enough to like more than one thing

[@arthurvieira2104]

He never stated that he did like Lana and Phoebe, though. He only used them as examples because they are popular pop artists.

[@ombrenightcores]

@@arthurvieira2104 He has multiple videos saying Phoebe is his third favorite artist. And he’s stated he likes Lana even if she’s not his favorite

[@storytimesongs1]

@ombrenightcores What a coincidence, Phoebe’s also my 3rd favorite artist haha

[@twentyrothmans7308]

Thank you, David. I started humming a melody from nowhere, just listening to you.

[@therkledoesbad]

i like trying to guess what beatles song he'll talk about before i watch

[@andrewwebb3431]

Beatles and Radiohead are pretty much guaranteed hits in David Bennett Bingo.

[@katiukulele]

Ukulele player watching for educational purposes... Absolutely amazing progression that opens up a very interesting finger practice for chording. To play this I use my pinky for C, my ring for C7, my middle goes where my index would go while my ring goes where the middle usually goes for F because that makes an easy transition for Fm by using the index on the fourth string, first fret, keeping the middle on the first fret second string, and dropping the pinky to the C chord position for an easy up to reach start again. Thank you, David, for another amazing lesson in chord progressions!

[@TheJonaGaming]

Dear Prudence actually has another level of complexity which i find is very important for the sounding of the song, when you play the G And the Gm chord you keep the F# from the D’s, thus making it Gmaj7 And GmMaj7 (also serving as a pedal note between all 4 chords). Had to point that out, its my favorie Beatles song and favorite song of all time :)

[@RingoMonsanto]

I didn't realize the pattern was so common. The only song I knew with that pattern was "I'll Never Cry" by Alice Cooper. I just learned now that Dear Prudence, Build Me Cup Buttercup, and a lot more songs I knew, were using that same structure. I learned something new today, thansk! 🙂

[@frankzelazko]

Cheers Dave. Must use this chord progression

[@standardofexcellence]

I love your teachings bro

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I appreciate that 😀

[@Bill_Woo]

@@DavidBennettPiano Hmm I reloaded the webpage and Chapters aren't there anymore, at least at this moment, in case that is reparable. (Or unless it was deliberate) (Maybe Don Henley did it !!)

[@electrisoma]

Skeleton Appreciation Day by Will Wood and the Tapeworms uses the same chord progression for the verses and then uses the creep progression for the choruses very fun usage of the progression

[@lianneeden4873]

Was going to comment this song as well! I really love that song :)

[@MIRobin22]

I saw this premier right after listening to Wise Up from Magnolia, which feels like the kind of thing that would happen in Magnolia

[@ericrakestraw664]

"It Ain't Over Til It's Over" by Lenny Kravitz uses a similar progression, but the song includes a I maj7 chord before the I7.

[@illDiology]

I'm hearing the Space Harrier game over theme!

[@liamannegarner8083]

Usually, in cases like "Part Of Your World," I follow with a I in the first inversion, so it moves even more smoothly from the iv. It's that thing where a borrowed chord or accidental makes a melody glue in your head, like the sharp near the end of "Rainbow Connection."

[@sammyinengland]

Crying by Roy Orbison uses a variation: the second chord is a I+ chord rather than I7. On the ‘when I saw you last night you held my hand so tight’ line

[@EvgenijGr]

Great video as always! It’s quite interesting to analyse these chords in terms what could be possibly played over them. I guess that it could be moving from C major to C Mixolydian over middle chords?

[@kenbagwell8551]

Nice outro. I always love the Beatles references.

[@RichardCharter]

My favourite use of this progression is in 'Memory Lane' by Elliott Smith. Granted it's an altered version, but it really does sound nostalgic - perfect for a trip down memory lane.

[@tom581q]

Laufey - Promise too!!

[@ombrenightcores]

Saw her perform it live and both me and the guy next to me had tears streaming down our faces. Same with Lizzy McAlpine’s Staying, which was also in this video

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Great example! I should have included it!

[@goodlookingcorpse]

It's amazing how much of Western music is going down either one semitone or one scale step at a time.

[@nazamanfredi]

I'm pretty sure "Arrancarmelo" by Wos also has this chord progression. You should look into argentinian music, I promise you we have excellent stuff! Love your videos, man, you're amazing.

[@wyattstevens8574]

Here's the first place I thought of the progression being once you played it- Nintendo! In the tune I heard in my head, it was C F/C Fm/C C and the melody I heard over the top of it was (slows down throughout) [C] C-G-E [F] A-B-A [Fm] Ab-Bb-Ab [C; this last part is basically a trill] G-F-G

[@jtn191]

What game/song?

[@freopt]

thought this was about Carti for 2 seconds

[@demancheedouard2144]

Still waiting for the "songs that use the I Will Survive progression" like Wild World by cat Stevens, Millenium by Robbie Williams etc

[@cleverhardy5230]

And "It's a Sin" by the Pet Shop Boys.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I’ve got a video on a very similar chord progression to that kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3W0e6CfmLl5fbMsi=jqTfHjIY2zUj1kLz Also, I believe Millennium is directly based on “I Will Survive” hence the same chord progression 😀

[@Bacopa68]

It's from Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor. The Final Countdown is another example.

[@stoatystoat174]

'Mongolian chord progression' was how i read it. Was quite confused 😅

[@liamannegarner8083]

Spicy Mongolian Beef Chords.

[@GaryKatch]

“Louisiana Fairy Tale”, Fats Waller’s version, was used for many years on US public television as the theme for “This Old House”. I heard it every week for years, so the Magnolia progression is burned into my DNA 😊

[@agentp2432]

(for C major) put a C/G after, and then F or Dm/G, and then C

[@westsydevybe]

Atmosphere "The Best day"

[@Bill_Woo]

Take the 4 C C7 F Fm but forget the chords, as a surprising number of hit songwriters do, who can't read music OR know chords (I know, shocker. They just "feel" them). Just do these 4 pairs: the top notes are E E C C. The lower side of the pairs is descending C, Bflat, A, Aflat. It's just a transposition of a selected 2 notes of each chord. Try it! (try the tempo of Desperado)

[@Bill_Woo]

Those 4 transpositions feel more familiar to me in my name-that-tune mind then the chords (I do read music and know standard chords BTW). Is there a name for locking the "high note" and crescendo-ing the chord below? Like Greatest Love of All: I do a C over G (so a transposed C), then C over G#, C over A, C over A#. Does that construction have a "diatonic name" ?

[@mikolajbogdaszewski9519]

Kinda similar chord progression was used in Queen song called "Spread your Wings". It also has that major to seventh and major to minor movement. I would love to see a video about it! 😊

[@Puzz...693]

Fantastic ❤, I'm learning a lot. Thanks ✌️

[@Quietloud]

I swear there's a song for one of the Bond films that also used this chord progression but I can't remember the name for the life of me! Edit: It's "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon

[@FinnBjerke]

Can be used as turnaround in blues also C/C7 F/Fm / C G#7/ G7 spicy variation

[@rome8180]

NOFX uses this progression in their punk rock masterpiece "The Decline." It happens twice in the song, first in instrumental version at three minutes and 48 seconds, and later at five minutes and 50 seconds in the "I wish I had a shilling" section. Sorry to type out the times. I'm trying to avoid KZbin creating a time stamp for this video.

[@Rubrickety]

1:55: "(potentially futile)". Best of luck, Mr. Bennett.

[@allanmargolin]

It’s also famously in the intro of jazz standard “All of Me”

[@Shroomdiffnuclear]

David Leary "I'm an asshole" has the same chord progression...fun fact

[@DrB81]

*Denis

[@barthurschmorgan]

i think the sample that Chirp from minecraft (and a song from Little Big Planet that i cant remember) use this if not a similar version!

[@jacksonsay37]

This progression reminds me of the Something progression you discussed in an earlier video.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Yes! Definitely a similar progression

[@jwelsje]

I started to play for a rock band at the age of 15 in 1977 and though the years this has been the most occurring progression in the slow songs. We usually play the I after the iv and then the V and the I again. It's also how we mostly ended a song. I see that you also compare songs that use the same progression. Try this one 99 Luftballons from Nena and Synthetic World from Swamp Dog. They use a progression like E F# A B.

[@e997e]

Is there a music theory term for when you use this type of chord progression (let's say C C7 F Fm), but the melody stays within the "original" key throughout and doesn't change to suit the chords outside of the key? Like not going to Eb in the melody over the F minor chord, but rather sticking with E instead (a.k.a. sticking to the key of C major for the melody, even over the Fm chord)?

[@Bill_Woo]

I'm replying in the hope it gets me notified when someone answers. Here's another to think of. On Greatest Love of All just play the chords with 2 fingers, the right one also being E. The left, 4 beats each, are G, G#, A, A#. Similar sentiment to your question, which I'm also intrigued by. I think you're saying high notes E E C C over C Bflat A, Aflat. just a "2 finger chord" on each.

[@glennfolau6959]

As I was viewing this video, the outro to "The Diary of Horace Wimp", by ELO, kept going round and round in my head.

[@xblinketx]

One of my favorites. I am guilty of using it far too often in my writing. I like to start with a maj7 chord to add even more of this chromatic movement.

[@joemcginty7]

I would add "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker and "Beautiful" by Christine Aguilera.

[@jonnybrick7473]

This must be why Aimee Mann uses the progression on Save Me, from Magnolia's soundtrack!

[@tylerhackner9731]

I love your vids

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thanks!

[@rafaelallenblock]

In before Henley's mob throws a faulty strike on the video...🥂

[@salutcmoi2287]

Blue Vein by Lael Neale ❤

[@craigbrowning9448]

The "A" Section of the King Cole Trio version of "I Love You For Sentimental Reasons," other versions use "Ice Cream":changes.

[@craigbrowning9448]

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[@macsnafu]

I saw that--you listed a Rudy Vallee song as an example!

[@thebeebz9511]

Weird by hanson was the 1st song i thought of

[@davetye]

Nobody Does it Better (Hamlisch/Bayer Sager) makes good use of this progression too.

[@Bill_Woo]

I hear C Cm G Gm, not C C7 F Fm. I suspect one of us is high.

[@hibbiea8841]

You forgot Happy performed by Leona Lewis

[@caseygreen]

Also in Last Of The American Girls by Green Day

[@jmorgan3977]

I hear the first few chords of All I Want For Christmas Is You.

[@MotorRoseMusic]

I heard, "All by Myself" by Eric Carmen. But I think it might be short a chord.

[@MrKockabilly]

I wonder Alice Cooper's I'll Never Cry wasn't mentioned. It fits the 10:21 variant

[@brandonkey181]

This seems very similar to My Future by Billie Eilish- the HookTheory tab says that it goes I V7/IV IV7 iv7.

[@chincherojo7479]

I use F Fm C C7 in my most recent song, Fuchsia. I tried to give it a sad vibe, it's about my LDR: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpzKiamQmLJpnbs

[@brentblake8306]

Hank Williams' "I'm so lonesome I could cry"

[@berndf7437]

Für mich sehr gute Beiträge die immer wieder neue erkenntnisse bringen 🇩🇪👍🏝️

[@CYLITM]

4:06 Is this progression used in Real Love or one similar to it?

[@nathanbarnes8535]

Was wondering if you knew what kind of chord progression is used in the first verse of Flashdance (What a Feeling) by Irene Cara. I picked up the use of a kind of secondary dominant or something similar. It's a pattern I've noticed in several other songs.

[@christhacker9450]

I think it's i-VII-VI. Very common one.

[@CoJaP0123]

David is watching me. I was using this progression when this video got recommended to me. 😂

[@sirB0nes]

So, basically, this was the I-V-vi-IV, but for the period 55 years or so earlier.

[@Triple3hot]

Cant take my eyes off you includes this , but with D Dm etc in front of

[@vic1ous511]

Shining Line - Heat of the Light uses something similar IMO 🤔

[@djmhyde]

oooooooooh! It's Veridian Forest theme from Pokémon Gold/Silver!!!!!

[@TotalMonsense]

10:39 isn't that... the SECRET CHORD that makes a song sound CHRISTMASSY? ✌️😜 EDIT: I cannot the said Vox video anymore ✌️😜

[@alanprior7650]

At the end was that a Coldplay tune?

"Desperado" by The Eagles is such a sad song.

[@yehoshuabenavraham9706]

Linda Rondstadt does an absolutely amazing live performance of this song. I don’t know if KZbin would block it if David Bennett used it.

[@yehoshuabenavraham9706]

Her version is more inspirational than sad.

[@TonyLovell]

Build me up Buttercup FTW!

[@thisoldminer]

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful ? ?

[@Gabriela-ic4gn]

Can't Take My Eyes off you is Magnolia?

[@danielpenberthy3373]

In new york i milly rock

[@SeabassGoose]

I immediately thought of the Mario Sunshine song lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYrHg4p5a7J2na8

[@micp4130]

This chord progression always makes me think of the song Drift Away from Steven Universe

[@Pearson-Whaley]

Never see me again by Kanye West

[@daoletto2]

The Who wrote half of Tommy with this

[@AT7outof10]

I can't help but hear King George's songs from Hamilton.

[@daoletto2]

100%

[@oouje]

my dumb ass thought it was gonna be the playboi carti magnolia progression

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

I always take something good away from your videos. Thanks!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad to hear it!

[@gerardobecher9404]

I - I7 - IV - iv is for me love at first sight, or better say, at first hearing. Since The Entertainer (how could you omit it?) to Dear Prudence I'm always looking for new songs that include this progression. I may give you a lot of examples coming from my country, Argentina. But this one is special, because all the song has the same progression from beginning to end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/enTJo2SQg7Wsi68

[@alpacas999]

Man I thought this was Carti

[@parkertyler67]

i thought of magnolia by carti 💀

[@BongoBaggins]

Shouting out numbers like you're playing Numberwang doesn't help. I'm glad to hear that one chord is the fifth chord of the fourth chord of the key chord but I have absolutely no idea what that means. That's Numberwang

[@johnnydepp4866]

I thought it was playboi carti’s magnolia!

[@michaelwilliams-owolabi8365]

any carti fans?

[@jennifield2274]

Gang 3gif

[@semyaza555]

I identify as “first”

[@dilemmacubing]

lol

[@thew1zard__]

i identify you as "nobody cares"

[@raggededge82]

damn special thanks to gaming historian, nice

[@americanhero1234]

Not a fan of these cords......there is no life in them🤔🤔🤔

[@elxicoplayboi5517]

No Playboi Carti. I'm very disappointed. Dislike.