Thanks to all those who suggested I take a look at some Billy Joel songs.
I appreciate there are perhaps some more complext songs in terms of chord progressions in his catalogue (and I will try and look at them soon!) but I thought I'd start up with this straight up classic because I am actually really interested at the moment in classic pop songs that hide very clever harmony in plain sight!
Here's an example of a song that uses fairly straight forward chord sequence but tied up in a beautiful modulating cycle of keys that give this sense of ever progressing forwards and yet ever returning to the same place (could there be a better way to describe the cycles of romantic love!?)
There are 3 distinct keys that make up the song and great uses of secondary dominants to go between each.
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Thanks for watching!
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3 июл 2024
