Songs that use the James Bond chord progression 

Man ,you just forgot the reference track used by John Barry to compose his theme ...Julie London - Cry me a river !!!!

Loved Goldfinger, So Iconic and memorable. Sean Connery was the one. The others were good, but no Sean.

Are you sure Paul doesn't put it somewhere in Live and Let Die?

Tomorrow Never Dies sneaks the first three chords of the progression in at the end of the chorus ;)

I am not a musician, but it seems like the chord progression is similar but sped up for “Wipeout”.

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That's handy - gives "prior art" protection as long as you don't lift anything else from the Bond theme.

For what it's worth, I got my info from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_(Elvis_Presley_song) @@ianxyoutube

@@ianxyoutube That's because "Torna a Surriento" doesn't include this particular progression - it's the main melody that has been, well, let's say "borrowed".

Plus, Elvis Presley's Surrender was recorded on October 30, 1960.

Focus on Phrygian, and do the line cliche in the bass notes instead of the upper notes (or both at once in power chords).

I feel like you need to incorporate some surf guitar and/or slap bass, and have some sliding, orchestral sounding strings...

Well it WAS a Bond film song!

Wrong order. The bit on "live & let die" lyric is G - C/G - Gdim - G7. The song has "danger feel" but it comes from odd interjection of minor & diminished chords, or oddball chords like D7flat9 (a D7 with a dissonant D# note on top, or maybe it's F# dim over a D). Leave it to Paul to do his own thing - and well.

Paul also used the same Em - C/E - C#°/E in the song Another Day, in the middle section.

@@loseryoutube6132 Shoot I KNEW Paul had used the Bond move with the Augmented chord - somewhere. Thanks for identifying it. A bit surprising, maybe, that David's search tool didn't catch it?

l think the 2nd chord is G C# E

my first thought

That part makes me think of Led Zeppelin Kashmir. At least when I first heard, as teenager in "the Call of Ktulu" by Metallica, where Dave originally used this sam riff. Later Dave simply re-used it in "Hangar 18" So it's originally "the Call of Kthulu" riff. Listen to Kashmir, check out the resemblance. It sounds way more inspired by Kashmir then it does to the James Bond theme.

Also, In my darkest hour and a billion other megadeth songs

Panic Attack by Dream Theater does this sorta thing too....there's tons of other examples in more niche metal bands that I can't think of right now....but never deny the coolness/impact of a chromatic line, ascending or descending

That's a 3 chord descending progression though, it was the melody of the Cornell song that was Bond-like.

This is also can be heard in the intro of Beatles' Help

It's the voice leading that makes the Cornell song sound reminiscent of James Bond. That voice leading doesn't exist in Heart Shaped Box, which is a mess as they often are in rock songs. But even if you want to try and extrapolate the closest mix of voices that approximates the voice leading, you'd get a (V - bvi - iv - V - bvi - vi - bvii/iv) line (last note varies because the last note is an open guitar string and sometimes he hits the D, and sometimes he hits the G). But again, that inexact rising chromatic line is almost never perceived as such because it's a mix of the soprano and alto voices rather than totally in the soprano like the Cornell example. Also the bVI chord never actually plays the major third, and the IV chord is a dom7 both in root position which further distorts any possible connection. Also I know that David sometimes presents it as just a "i - bVI - IV" progression, but that's kind of disingenuous since it's just a really common third descending natural minor progression which you see in a ton of modern music. And as a final note, as iconic as the "James Bond chord progression" is, it's also a really cliché piece of writing. In fact, we literally call them line clichés. Those sorts of chromatically rising/falling voice chord progressions have just always had a strong appeal in Western music so you'll have things that just sort of incidentally sound like it. Anyway, that's all to say that it essentially never sounds like James Bond.

The heart shaped box progression is also in territorial pissings and in bloom. I always think of that as the nirvana chord progression

I was looking for such a comment, glad it didn't take long to find :)

Empty spaces also has it

haha, so was I!!!!! glad someone mentioned this i think about it every time i listen to the wall @@roman.korpachyov

@@danielbu1631I don’t think “Empty Spaces” quite uses the Bond progression, although the motion of the notes within the chords is very similar, starting on a note, moving up to a close by note, moving up to another close by note, and back down. I can definitely see where you’re coming from! This seems to be a motif that appears throughout “The Wall”, most notably in the “Another Brick in the Wall” trilogy. It can also be heard at the end of “Hey You” and “Waiting for the Worms”.

Wow I thought this was familiar from there! That makes sense now, thanks

And despite whatever I love these chord progression videos 😊❤❤😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

And I love you, Tyler.

It would sound cool in a hard bop tune

It's gotta be either my favorite or my second favorite of all time.

Think so... how about Stairway to Heaven & Cry Me a River?

Exactly what I thought

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The comment I was looking for!

also the beginning of "Youth Culture Killed My Dog"

The melody plays a chromatic scale but I'm not sure the chord progression has any similarities beyond that.

​@@Luke5100did he talk about Savoy Truffle? I haven't watched the full video yet, but that instantly comes to mind

I was waiting for it to come out in this video

I agree. You can hear it very clear at the beginning of the second verse of the song :)

Came here to say this. Supremacy almost seems purpose-written as a Bond theme! I've seen some people edit James Bond opening sequences to it, and it really works.

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Actually, Muse did put forward Supremacy to be used in Skyfall, instead of Adele’s theme, but was rejected. The band released it on their next album The Second Law anyway as they’d already written and recorded it

@@robertgodsellSkyfall is a surprisingly good theme and well executed. But Supremacy is... supreme. :)

That song is epic

I didn't know that! Cool!

Someone on RU-vid made a video of bond clips set to Supremacy. It would have been perfect.

Glad someone said this.

Muse have written like 4 of the best Bond songs of all time and still they get snubbed.

I’d vote for that.

Wow I loved that song from my few months of life in Canada and had never spotted that it included this too :)

I thought of that one, too That outro jam is so fun to play.

Thanks! I've been thinking about making a video about Hungarian minor actually! It's certainly on the list :)

@@DavidBennettPiano Yes please! It's very charming and has a bit of spice to it that's hard to put your finger on. Would love to hear your tear-down... and improvisation at the end of the video!

Based double harmonic appreciator

"We won't use guns, we won't use bombs, we'll use the one thing we've got more of and that's our minds." ....yeah!😛

How about Underwater Love by Smoke City?

José Afonso - Redondo Vocábulo

Sorry Angel by Serge Gainsbourg did it as well

Not exactly but quite. Fourth chord is different, isn't it?

There’s a lovely Italian song (actually a rewriting of an obscure American pop song) made famous by Mina Mazzini, called “Città vuota”, which does that progression in the context of the I and ii chords. In A: A - F+/A - A6 - F+/A, Bm - G/B - Bm6 - G/B.

Also the first track of his first LP - "Le Poinçonneur des Lilas"

@@Luke5100 true

The boss theme uses it as well. 👍

And Forested Temple in FF7!

Used in Descent I level 20 and Doom II level 1 to some extent

Gordon Lightfoot also has another song called "Don't Beat Me Down" that has a reverse "Bond" progression: Em(7) - A - C - Em, capo 3rd fret

@@OurgasmComrade Yes, another great song to sing and play.

Thank you!

Thanks!

@@DavidBennettPiano you‘re welcome! I‘m impressed by your work. I currently try myself to improve in improvisation and songwriting.

This progression is all over the place in Hamilton, most prominently "Stay Alive" and parts of "Right Hand Man". "Say No to This" is similar, but it keeps going up on the fourth chord.

And Forested Temple too in FF7. Which uses the motif in Emin, then Amin, switches to a G/Dmaj version of it then back to Dmin before going back to Emin again. Very cool sequence. Nobuo is obviously a James Bond fan!