The most common chord progression of all time! +Examples 

I FINALLY FOUND THE CHORD PROGRESSION THAT WAS STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR YEARS THANK YOU SO MUCH

When he said i iv vii iii vi ii V i I felt that

It’s such a gorgeous progression it sounds so logical and perfect

Homage brings me here

I can not live without this progression

I wouldn't say the circle of fifths is rare in classical, but its disguised very well. In mozarts most famous sonata k545 1st movement. The circle of fifths is in there for like 4 of 5 bars. I cant remember but it has the circle of fifths with connecting parallel 10ths. They were very educated.

I think this is why I fell in love with Vivaldi. Very few composers did this descending 5th's so well.

This progression feels so natural:0

I've always preferred the Baroque period but could never figure out why. Thought maybe it was the imagination taking me away of landed gentry in expensive clothes, drunk and dancing until 1AM in a hall. Powdered wigs and rouge. Come to find out it was the circle of 5ths.

Someone wrote this song before And I could tell you where it's from The 4-7-3-6-2-5-1 to put my mind at ease Please just have a laugh with me 'Cause you know I'm borrowing by now These sounds, have already crowned Come on, it's a silly dream Dreaming of the imagery unfound The view sits nice from that cloud And if you want a piece of my thoughts There's a coin worth flipping Why don't you toss? Please just have a laugh with me 'Cause you know I'm borrowing by now These sounds, have already crowned Come on, it's a silly dream Dreaming of the imagery unfound The view sits nice from that cloud And if you want a piece of my thoughts There's a coin worth flipping Why don't you toss?

The variations on the piano/keyboard are so beautiful! The string sound has such a nice warm "tone" to it, and it made me realize how many songs have thia progression! Now I know why those songs feel so special.

Bro the second variation, F to B7 to Esus4 is freaking amazing mate. The 7th at the base line is really doing the difference here (my bad I know I’m not using the good music terminology here.. it’s really different in french that’s why!)

I always liked the vibe of the Burn's solo sections. I guess this is why.

I dont know if you'll see this comment or not but i have to thank you. I dont even play piano. I play guitar. Watching this video for some reason made chord inversions make sense in my head the way nothing else ever has. This video showed up in my suggested so I figured get why not. I grabbed my guitar and played along for a few minutes. Then asked myself how can i play this differently. It was like in an instant all the triad and inversion drills ive been doing for months landed in my brains understanding of concept💡 pile. Thank you

Yeah, many songs are using this nice progression. Another of the great ones is: Fly Me To The Moon.

Of all the videos that came up in my search, this one was the one that I desperately needed. Thank you 🙏🏼

Not only I’m enjoying you posting but learning A LOT Thank you is really wonderful

i immediately recognized the i iv VII III from the intro/interlude of abbas head over heels! i didnt realize it was the circle of fifths progression!

If ever some people want more classical/romantique examples, I have compiled a playlist on spotify named “Circle Of Fifths: Non Baroque”. :)

The first example is by Marcello, not Bach. Bach made a keyboard arrangement of Marcello’s concerto. Also check out Brahms’s Handel Variations.

3:50 this is amazing

My whole life could telling by that chord progression

v7/V v7 Vmaj7/IV IVmaj7 viim7b5 V7/vi vi7 in all keys lets you practice all chords in all categories at least once each/key (one half-diminished, two each of major, minor, and dominant)

Oh man! This is one of the best videos of internet! Thanks for posting!

all of these songs sound like different versions of each other

My brain is spazzing out desperately trying to match the cords to a song and finding 5.000.000 correct answers.

We can confidently say that fly me to the moon uses this progression. Because, to reduce Bdim's tension they just substituted it with Dm7

I really love the V7/V and the Neapolitan chord in your examples

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youtube need more videos like this.

You´ve given me what I was looking for. In the first seconds of your video. Have a good and long life.

It’s amazing I noticed I was listening to I will survive from the first introduction of the progression except I didn’t really until it actually came up

Homage by mild high club addressed the same ~ 4736251

Thank you, this blew my mind.

Please upload more of this!! Other music styles too :)

Probably not "the most common", which almost sounds a bit derogatory, but surely one of the most beautiful.

Also anime opening of fullmetal alchemist, which is called melissa

I kept waiting to hear Frank Sinatra singing "Fly Me To the Moon"...

Such a perfect video. Please upload more. We need it, in another genres, please!!

My teacher probably summed it up this way. Instead of letting me understand

Ah, yes, what I use when I don't know how to do next 😄😄. Admit that, it works perfectly.

I'm only now learning about music since I wasted my life being atonal. Over 400 years ago they taught orphans in Napoli to become maestri, and this system was passed down all over Europe. Most of the greatest composers had Italian teachers. The Paris (and probably Warsaw and Russian) Conservatories were based on this system. Roman numeral analysis pales in comparison. A good source is Derek Remes in Lucerne, Gjerdingen and Mortenson in America.

Really nice and romantic your song. I will listen to more of yours.

I use these all of the time in my music.

I liked your variation #1 the best btw, that really hit the spot with me.

Very cool, thanks

Thank you very much!! You deserve wayyyy more subs!!

Doesn't Barbie Girl also start with this? It might be the most well known example

Homage is a great song that uses this it even credited it in the lyrics 4736251

Ah yes my favorite chord progression.

Muse uses the circle of fifths progression on their song 'Take A Bow' from the album Black Holes and Revelations.

Great job putting this together.

I didn't think I'd like #4 that much because the beginning had a bit too much chromaticism for me, but I LOVED the ending, with the Picardy Third (I Major chord ending a chord progression in a minor key.)!!!!

Also by Bach and Vivaldis Winter

Parisienne walkways and still got the blues

Thank you for this video!!

I'm pretty sure that in It's a sin by the Pet Shop Boys it is there too, though I'm not exactly sure, it does sound like it

Great video man!

A good example from pop rock is Queen/ Don't Stop Me Now... iii-vi-ii-V-I repeated several times.

D minor progression makes me cry

Beautiful work by you. Long live Dear

Couldn't stop hearing Barry Manilow's Could It Be Magic, which is based on Chopin's Prelude In C Minor.

Cool

Thanks a lot.. from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 here.. Could you please introduce some other chord progressions, from which I can give a try for Classical Music improvisations.. 🙏

I wrote a song , it came out as an exercise over progressions of forth, and is this exact cord progression just that I use Dm again instead of Bdim, but I play it in gm. Of course I knew was somewhere in classical music .

the first three chords are the same as in Nightwish - 10th man down

Someone wrote this song before...

Excellent

Could someone give me a more specific thing to search for when I look for the piece at 2:44?

Great video...interesting historical perspective!

Just thank's, you are a amazing people

I think handel/Halvorsen passacalgia have one of these chord progression

If you want a very good example check out Schumanns Piano concerto in A minor. 3rd movement has the most beautiful partial circle of 5ths in music.

Miley cyrus new song Flowers clearly use this chord

Genius video!

sub! just what I was looking for. thanks.

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snow drive - omoi

I used to like this progression a lot but it feels too melancholic and depressive to me now . Still adore Vivaldi RV156 progression though.

This progression is really similar to the A section in all the things you are

ok yeah finally i found out that devils never cry was based off of something

What synthesizer were you using and / or what preset ? Because this is one of the best sounds i have heard in my life ❤

This reminds me of Stanley Kubrick's movies, I dunno why

3 chopin waterfall?

Passacaglia! Une belle histoire

Sonata arctica Destruction preventer

You did amazing mate! Do you have any equivaletion in Amaj? please!!!

If you didn't already can you explain the hotel california chords progression , is like fifth than minor third(major) and so on

even magdalena- gloc 9 make a song came from this

Rosa's just a misunderstood mother.

Bach is a goddamn genious.

wallflower by twice

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Im a philistine and can't identity composers by their portraits. Can someone help me name the composers in order?

Rockabye has the Circle of 5th Chords

Sound like Passacaglia first lines

I think i found new variation i guess Its in c maj and: C F Bdim Em Am Dm G C😊

The first oboe concerto example is not by Bach but often mistaken to be because he made arrangements of it. It’s by Marcello ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vE2O_yfgtBU.html

where that [I V vi IV] at?