Songs that use the Augmented climb chord progression
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The augmented climb chord progression, which is the progression from "Last Night On Earth" by Green Day, starts on the tonic chord and then the top voice of the chord climbs up by semitones until we reach the fourth chord of the key.
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0:00 "Last Night On Earth" by Green Day
1:15 Other examples
2:36 Minor 4 chord
3:40 Double augmented climb
5:19 For Once In My Life
6:05 Donner
6:50 why does this progression work?
9:28 Piano outro
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I found a really interesting chord progression in "Little Wonder" by David Bowie: I | vi | IV | âVI, could you check it out?
Can you really recommend donner? Is the quality nice?
The chord-progression videos are outstanding.
Thanks!
They make me feel just a little bit smarter and also introduce me to some songs I've ever never heard or made me look at songs I knew in a completely different light.
I just can't comprehend the encyclopedic knowledge of music he must have in order to provide so many examples for each progression...and at such a young age!
My favorite series. I try the chord progressions in new songs immediately; such great springboard and inspiration)
Really agree they are fantastic videos. Going to nick, I mean get influence from this progression for my next song
The minor 4th just makes everything better. Itâs a more bittersweet resolution
It's also the solution in I-III-IV-iv Like in Creep, by Radiohead
I think green day has used this progression in the most beautiful way. It's the perfect balance and the minor chord just layers it beautifully.
It sounds extremely betlesesque. Especially the vocal processing
Green Day is pretty cringe
Sounds just like Just Like Starting Over
@@SonyaBladesBooty IYO!
@@feeno1188 I thought so too.
Maybe This Time from Cabaret was the first one that came to my mind. Also love the nod to Ben Folds Five, excellent!!
No way, Paint watches David Bennett?
Yeah, I had Underground in mind. Such a great chord progression in that song!
I also thought of Maybe this time but perhaps the ascending part is just the melody and the chord is just the I chord?
@@damefawndenier If the melody were singing the enharmonic #5 and the rest of the arrangement stayed on the I chord, you'd be hearing the I(b6) chord, which would sound pretty much like the same thing yeah, except it would technically be a b6 rather than a #5 so not really an augmented chord. Don't actually know what that song sounds like though but I'd assume it's just the I+ chord.
Edit: Yeah it's just the augmented I chord.
Life On Mars was the first example that popped into my head! It's also worth mentioning the song that inspired Life On Mars - Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' - which itself borrowed the tune from a French song called Comme d'habitude.
Plus Bowie first worked on a previous attempt at adapting comme d'habitude
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sinatra's my way it's a different chord progression the song uses a Maj7 instead of a 6 and don't use the augmented first at all
I heard that climb and I thought, âthat feels very Sinatra-likeâ I didnât have a song in mind, just that thought.
"It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To," recorded by Lelie Gore. The chorus chord progression is
I, I+, IV, iv. The top note climbs to the 6th but becomes part of the IV chord when it gets there, then comes back down to IV minor,
Good shout
This is the original, and everyone else is ripping it off.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 you can't claim a chord progression
@@randomkid8999 It's not a claim of royalties, just a claim of originality.
â@@annaclarafenyo8185That's certainly not the first piece of music to ever use this progression, the 5-#5-6-b6 idea has been around forever.
Edit: Guess who was right all along? Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely uses the same progression and predates It's My Party by a few months. Still, the general idea of the chromaticism from the 5th to the 6th and back has probably been around ever since Jazz in he early 20th century at least.
An interesting aspect of Something is that the intro climbs up the same chromatic line A, Bb, B, C, before the verse climbs it back down. Brilliant!
I'd love to see a video on the augmented 6th chords... Italian, German, & French augmented 6th chords. I think you do an excellent job of presenting digestible information & it would be rad to see you cover this topic.
I would too. I took music theory a lot, but just up to that point. Then I skipped to jazz theory
@@audiokyle aug6ths are pretty much classical tritone subs
@@audiokyle I've always been a big fan of theory but I never felt like I fully comprehended the Neapolitan 6ths...the French Augmented 6th, Italian Augmented. 6th, or German Augmented 6th chords & how to properly use them. This channel does such a great job explaining everything in a voice that is easily digestable for me. Fingers crossed for a dedicated video on this topic!
Coldplay's Coloratura also uses this progression, exactly the same as used in Last Night on Earth (in the key of D: D D+ D6 D7 G Gm), but the interesting thing is that right after it resolves back to the tonic chord of D, it repeats the progression, going to D+ after only one bar of D, giving us an irregular phrase pattern.
Yeah, Coloratura does use this same line cliche, but it uses slightly different chords: D/A, Gm6/Bb, Bm7/D (D6), D7sus4/C. In other words, itâs slightly more complex than the Green Day song. It also uses the Gm6 on the way back down to the D/A from the G that the D7sus4/C leads to. Itâs a fantastic song and I think is the prime example, along with Good Vibrations, of a âpocket symphonyâ.
Im so glad Last Night On Earth is getting recognition. It's such a beautiful song. So underrated
Indeed. I find there to be quite a lot of gems hidden in the Green Day discography. Perhaps tides will one day turn, and they will get the recognition they deserve!
Came here to say this, too. One of my favorites!
It is nuts that these lessons are free! Of such value to an older lifelong music hobbyist. I wouldn't mind seeing a whole presentation on Scott Walker (or Jacques Brel, for that matter), if relevant...
Me too! Scott Walker 3 is my avatar!
Yes, I agree, but I want to see songs from Tilt onwards get analysis
Great shout - walker and brel so amazing. Would love an analysis of the seventh seal
Oh, absolutely!
But, if we are putting together a Wish List, I nominate Serge Gainsbourg, Randy Newman, Jeff Buckley...
There used to be a principle that all knowledge should be free and that there would be "education for all".
This is basis on which public libraries were built. The scientific method also relies on free publication for peer review. Universities used to be funded by the taxpayer - no student loans and fees. And all "open source" technologies are rooted in that idea, including something like Wikipedia.
One could say that the actual modern aberration here is that this principle has increasingly become ransomed away by profit-making corporations.
This was - and arguably should remain - the default. But, yes, more and more education is being paywalled for profit.
Consider the very notion of paywalling the news, as many of Murdoch's publications now do, is implicitly saying that only the rich should know what's going on in the world.
Imagine asking a friend "how's things going?" and they'll only answer you, and tell you the news in their life, if you pass some silver over their palm first and pay for it.
That's the true aberration here. Profit-making from merely distributing facts, so we now have to talk about "open source" this and that, to actually refer to something that used to be the implicit default.
Steal Away by Robbie Dupree uses this progression twice. Intro/verse in off of the 1 chord A then in the bridge off the 4 chird D. Love the videos!
Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" also uses this chord progression. Water perfectly draws the sadness, pain and melancoly of the human life. This song gives me chills.
YES!
First one I thought of too. It all time fav song of mine! Extremely underrated album
How amazing was the version during lockdown?
What a song.
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I thought of that song too. Great song by Pink Floyd
There are 2 songs with this progression that come to my mind more than any others and you didn't mention either! (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon, and of course THE DEFINITIVE example of this progression, Laughing by The Guess Who. Great channel! thank you for these awesome videos!
Thank you! I thought I was going crazy cuz nobody had brought it up!
Yes! Starting over came to my mind, too!
âIsolationâ by John Lennon comes to mind...
What?! Stumbled on this by accident. Incredibly interesting and well-done video. Enjoyed it immensely.
Thank you!
i love the way this progression is used in nowadays from chicago, your videos always break things down so well
I think âFunny Honeyâ from _Chicago_ uses the same (or similar) chord progression-but Iâm no music maven so donât hold me to it.
Yeah this is the song I think of when I hear those chords
I am learning so much about chord progressions thanks to your videos. Keep them coming, I love them!
Glad you like them!
love Ben Folds appearing here! I believe the yacht rock classic "Steal Away" also uses the chord progression. great video as always, I adore these chord progression based videos, even if I don't understand the theory to a lot of them.
Did anyone mention "Hooked on a Feeling"? That's all i hear over those chords in my head.
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This is the one I was looking for.
The pre-chorus to âHooked on a Feelingâ has similar chromatic movement in that it goes A-C#7-F#m-A7, so you end with the 5th of the A chord (E) going to the 3rd of the C#7 (F), then to the tonic of the F#m (F#), and, finally, to the dominant 7th of the A7 chord (G).
I know this chord progression best from the overworld theme of Super Mario Land "Birabuto Kingdom". Very nostalgic sound
Do one on the Hey Bulldog chorus...that is so intense with Lennon's voice and melody above it
That riff is the blues scale I think? So so good
This is a great video! Last night on earth is my favorite song and I love the use of the augmented climb in the song, it gives it such a bittersweet and almost melancholy tonality. Also, thank you for making such interesting and accessible videos on music theory, Iâm always excited to see a new upload from this channel!
Iâve always loved this Green Day song so itâs cool seeing a video on it, Iâm definitely going to use this progression for myself with my band sometime. Great video as always, David, keep it up
Thanks for another lovely video! This chord progression immediately reminded me of "Nowadays" from the musical Chicago.
How do you know/find so many examples of every chord progression. Insane
As a matter of fact I would really ask David if he knows all these tunes by heart or if he perhaps uses some kind of database.
In the comments of another video ("40 Songs that use Descending Stepwise chord progressions") he once said it was a mixture of his own knowledge and database.
Iâd take a guess and say he has perfect pitch
@@X-UP-and-DOWN-X Perfect pitch is something different than recognizing chord progressions, it means that you are able to recognize a tone absolute, without context and relation to other tones, e. g. an e as an e.
@@Ron-go8cf oh Iâm aware. I was referring to the fact that he has so many uploaded, in-depth videos on many different chord progressions, that I thought he was using perfect pitch to quickly identify songs that share same progressions. Or maybe very good relative pitch. Those, OR, heâs just extremely dedicated to his research and videos.
Worth mentioning that the line cliche also makes the change from IV to IVm and back to I sound so natural at the end. The rise by half-tones is then mirrored by a fall by half-tones back to the original position. I always call this the "Isolation" progression, after the John Lennon song. One of my favourite ascending line cliché songs is Brian Eno's "Some of Them are Old".
The amount of times I've heard this chord progression is uncanny
dont think this in intentional but BA DUM TSSS
Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us today and for your help
Gâyou make music theory very understandable and concise .
Barenaked Ladies, it's all been done before was my introduction to this, "You were wrong, I was right, you said goodbye I said good night..."something like thatđ
Then my friend Gary Myers, brilliant old musician from Milwaukee living in California, pointed out that there's a kind of hush all over the world by Herman's hermits He used that, and I started hearing it more places in my head.
Great example re: Barenaked Ladies' "It's All Been Done"!
I think these songs also fit the bill.: Dave Clark
Five - Because
Mark Owen - Child
John Lennon - Just Like (Starting Over). This is one of my favorite progressions. Thanks David.
I was looking for that comment đ
First music that came into was Just like (starting over)
OOH! Ooh, ooh, ohh! Because. GREAT progression.
Very interesting. As a guitar player who dabbles in piano this is exactly what a guitar player would come up with. Ive also played These arms of mine for 30 years and never thought about the chord progression because the guitar plays a single note line there. Thanks for all the great videos!
I've always loved the Last Night On Earth chord progression and have even had a tough time figuring out what was being played. Love how you broke it down and shed some light on a song from my favorite Green Day album!
Really interesting and useful this one was as wellđđFor such a total beginner like međOnce again opened really and tangibly my eyes, when it comes to e.g the resolution of a chord progression,so,thank You very much once again, You ruleđđđ
John Lennonâs â(Just Like) Starting Overâ has an augmented climb in A. great song
Love the message from it too - so personal - not sure about the Elvis thing but a classic classic song
A lot of songs from Hamilton that have the urgency and danger embodied by the song also heavily lean on this whole climbing augmentation thing like Say no to this (for more on that one btw and how it functions in Hamilton I'd heavily recommend Howard Ho's
How Hamilton Works: Why Stay Alive sounds like Bond. It goes all into the difference between going from I -> I+ -> I6 -> I+ and getting stuck in a loop and why that's significantly different to I -> I+ -> I6 -> I7)
Ooh this is a great example!
When I heard the example of Green Day, I suddenly thought of "Losing my Mind " from the musical "Follies", been made famous to the radio by Liza Minelli & The Pet Shop Boys.
"Nowadays" from Chicago and the ending of "Mornings" by Portugal. The Man!
I kept waiting for you to mention Buddy Holly, "Raining In My Heart" as one of the early examples of this in popular music. đ
thank you for mentioning it. It's the first that came to my mind, too
This has always been one of my favorite chord progressions. Glad you made a video on it! :D
This is a brilliant series of videos thanks, please keep making them!
Brilliant. Thanks for putting these videos together.
I would like to mention that this chord progression shares a very similar sound with I-III-vi-v-IV-(iv)-I-I as the I+ shares the Aug 5th with the III chord and the I6 chord can be considered as the vi chord. Also the minor 7th in the v chord is shared with the I7 chord. Different namings but very similar movements between the notes. It's a very common chord progressions in Japanese music, one example that I can think of is the song here with me by d4vd, if I'm not wrong
Good point, although I'm wondering if you mean to write the IV chord after III? The F major (VI) uses the A note, which continues the climb, whereas Fm (iv) would stay on the A flat note.
@@urbangorilla33 sorry my bad, I meant the sixth chord. I just edited the comment :)
@@carlosmartinez5128 I love how the III chord is just the I+ withe root lowered by a semitone.
There is one epic type of chord progression that truly proves that even songs with modal mixture can sound grand. That is one that starts with a major tonic and then climbs up on the steps of the minor scale.
Example of songs:
Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith in You (1993)
Jacob Kilström - Klassresa (2023)
Yes - Homeworld (1999)
These are very clear examples and I'm sure that there are more.
Wdym by climbs up the minor scale?
@@saswatamohanta1023 Yea, if you use modal mixture, you can base a chordprogression on minor scale steps despite major tonic chord. Example of a modal mixture, when The Beatles use a bVI chord in "Hello Goodbye".
I don't know much if anything about music theory, but my ears tell me that this is one of the most beautiful chord pregressions ever!
Those videos are such a good support for studying cadences in musicology. Thank you so much for this brilliant content !
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO MR. BENNETT. Sometimes I think I can't love music any more and then I watch one of your videos and you prove me wrong. Keep on fighting the good fight!!
The love song from âDonât Hug Me Iâm Scaredâ is very similar. You should look at all of those songs, some of them are very interesting. You can tell they know how to write music.
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i think 'Hey Bulldog' by the Beatles has a part with a sort of minor key version of the augmented climb. Idk if that still counts !
yes! there is a bm augmented climb and an f#m augmented climb in the chorus.
Excellent, thank you, David.
I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for this channel.
I've found the chord progression i / III / VII / VI to sound really good. It's used in "Mad World" by Tears for fears and "Boulevard of broken dreams" by Green Day.
David did a video on that one, itâs called the Phrygian cascade, itâs also used in wonderwall
Polly nirvana
@@youngwt1 It's in the dorian mode, not phrygian
Pumped up kicks uses that as well
i / III / VII / iv
Kander and Ebb have used this a couple times: Funny Honey from Chicago uses the 'Last Night on Earth' progression, and Maybe This Time from Cabaret uses the 'double augmented' progression. It's interesting how this progression works really well in jazz as well as pop/rock.
I came here to say Nowadays from Chicago
@@melvt Haha I thought the same, John Kander's "vamp" motif
After a long day, your video helped me recover and feel happy again. Thank you so much for sharing! â€â€
Green Day really are underrated songwriters
You mean Billie Joe
No
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they arent, i just checked and they have 27 million monthly listeners on spotify
So they have one song that isnât entirely composed of power chordsâŠ
Id be interested to see the most common chord progressions that specific artists use. Like is there one in particular that Michael Jackson used? The Killers? How about MCR?
Fascinating. Thank you
I really like this kind of videos. Thank you!
Good one! Bohemian Rhapsody has one section where it "climbs down" with bass, but I guess it's due to copy rights that you can not discuss about it.
I enjoy these type of videos the most, as they are fun and concise.
Copyright doesnât prevent David from talking about âBohemian Rhapsody.â He did âA Brief Analysis of Bohemian Rhapsodyâ four years ago (which, at just over 20 minutes, isnât all that brief), which is well-worth checking out.
Yes, and Rick Beato analyzed Bohemian Rhapsody, too! In fact, Rick Beato had analyzed a bunch of classic songs.
That's like in Super Mario Land
that augmented chord progression sounds like heaven to me...
The sun is out, the skies are blue; there's not a cloud to spoil the view, but it's raining... raining in my heart.
Does the donner come with garlic sauce?
Okay, okay, Iâll let myself out đ
Hahah, really enjoyed that kebab joke
Hello David! If you have a broader video subject into which it can fit, I'd love to hear an analysis of the pre-chorus of "Our Lips Are Sealed" by The Go-go's. There is some seriously odd stuff happening in that section, especially for what is supposedly a fluffy pop hit, and I think it would be interesting to explore why it works.
there's some cross relations between chords borrowed from the parallel minor.. it's a very common trick in 80s pop
Sorry but I have to chime in here because I recently analyzed this song after watching The Go-Gos documentary. I had never realized what an odd chord progression it was until I heard Jane's acoustic demo, so I went to the keyboard and here's what I got. The verse is I- flatVII - IV, the pre-chorus is flatVI - IV - flatII - V, then the refrain/chorus is just a I - IV vamp. So the flatVI and flatVII are merely borrowed chords from the parallel minor, quite common. But that flatII, I have no idea how to analyze that in its functionality, other than being a borrowed chord from the Phrygian mode (?), which is very unusual considering that the song is in a major key. In fact, if you notice, EVERY chord in the song is a major chord, which is why it still sounds so "poppy." Anyway, hope that helps.
@@dgemini2 thank you for the chords, and you are right, with major chords is easier to borrow surprising chords.. that flat II is there in my opinion to have the IV-bII combination mirror the I-IV cross relation..
@@dgemini2 Yes, this is exactly what I was referring to! That borrowed Phrygian chord is the kicker, a lot weirder than the borrowed minor chords. I find the fact that there are so many borrowed chords in the progression to be pretty interesting as well, though.
It's well-documented that The Go-go's at this point were very musically green (by their own admission), so I'm sure they came up with that chord progression just by experimenting with different major chords until they found something they liked. But I'm really interested in understanding why this particular sequence of chords fits so well together, despite looking odd on paper. There's a strong sense of direction to the progression, so I wouldn't be surprised if voice leading has something to do with it.
Thank you for your videos . With your approach to music theory is so easy to understand and learn music
Thanks I appreciate your work always interesting and very helpful for understanding music
Im writing a song for my unborn son. Im using the "let it be" (I V vi IV) for the verse and a modified "running up the hill" (IV V III vi) for the chorus. I consider those the ultimate catchy structure
Awesome! Can you make a video on the Where Is My Mind chord progression?
It's I-vi-III-IV, though a more common variation is the same progression but starting on the vi chord, like vi-III-IV-I
Other songs that use it are:
- Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
- Cradles - Sub Urban
- Cigarette Duet - Princess Chelsea
- Say It Ain't So - Weezer
- Cake - Melanie Martinez
- Good in Goodbye - Madison Beer
At least those are the ones I've found.
Edit: Actually another one would also be the "minor version" of the augmented climb progression, i-bVI-IV, which often has a vi° chord instead of the IV, but that's functionally the same thing. It's the classic James Bond progression. Other songs that use it off the top of my head are:
- Skyfall - Adele (obviously that's based on the James Bond theme)
- Caravan - Duke Ellington
- Help! - The Beatles
- Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana
- In Bloom - Nirvana
- The Avengers main theme - Alan Silvestri
- Around the World in 80 Days main theme - Hans Zimmer
- Atomic - Blondie
- Monde Nouveau - Feu! Chatterton
- Guardians of the Galaxy main theme (I think, it's similar to the Avengers theme)
- Du cÎté de chez Swann - Dave
- Seventeen - Ladytron
- BABY SAID - MĂ„neskin
- Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground; Nico
- Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground; Nico (though both of these, much like Help! actually, use it from the perspective of the ii chord as the i)
- and and as an honorable mention, All Star - Smash Mouth, which uses the same progression in its chorus but with the relative major instead of the relative minor.
That one club penguin gadget room theme
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I wrote a song with this progression after your last augmented video! The F to Fmadd9 back to C is also super satisfying after it (the add9 being sung in the vocal melody).
Particularly love your outro on this one!!! (And they are generally terrific)
Hey, David! I am enjoying your "songs that use..."-series a lot! And I learn a lot. Thank you!
I ve been trying to work with line cliches since you explained it in your last video â€đthanks david
Always such great information. I feel like it would be so easy to write a great song after watching your videos but musicians who are schooled know all of this stuff. If it were so easy to write a great song Carol King and Bert Bacharach probably all ready did it. But for sure I feel inspired by you David. That's worth a fortune to us beginners! Thank you ever so much for sharing!!
This chord progression seems simple but importantly it feels sooo satisfying. Thanks!
Excellent again David!!
The entire video, I'm thinking that the second half of the second set of chords would be well served by a sus4 resolving back down, and then at the end of the video, you did exactly that. Very satisfying.
Thank you. Best! đ
Excellent as always!
Thank you Mr. David I really enjoyed this lessonđ
Beautiful! I love your ending performance so much too!
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First off, thanks for these informative videos on chord progressions. Theyâve helped me better analyze the music I enjoy! One of those artist is Ginger Root, who utilizes different 7, 9, and 13 chords (both major and minor) to create so many pretty progressions. Would make for a great video!
Amazing content!
Great vid as always mate - so inspiring for songwriters
I love this progression.
Thanks to you
I've learned so much about chord progressions and music theory overall that's impossible
Keep the good work up and stay healthy
The Gunner's Dream on Pink Floyd's album The Final Cut has this progression. This was the first one where I was able to hear another song in my head. I must be learning something!
another great video. so fun and educational.
Loving these chord progression videos keep it up!
Thank you đ
Always interesting and educational. I dig it.
Nowadays from Chicago uses this one as well. Love your chord progression videos!
When Green Day use the minor iv to extend the chord progression, it continues the pretty voice leading (chromatic line), as the top note can go up and then down, half-steps all the way: E F Fsharp G Fsharp Fnatural(on iv chord) E
Really enjoyed the breakdown of these songs
love these videos
Hey David thank you for this lesson man. I'm a guitar player and I love these augmented voicings
My favourite example is the intro to Just Like Starting Over
definitely in the song Thank You by Ron Thal. I've seriously been wondering about this for awhile now, so glad I came across this. My first observation, that resolution from the I7-IV is so strong, (probably because the the I7 chord could be viewed as the V7 if the IV became the I) but then still resolves even stronger to the original I chord, that's pretty slick. Which of course you highlight well in the explanation part. Soooo glad I came across this video
Love your videos!! My first exposure to this chord progression was Herman's Hermits "There's a Kind of Hush".
Your examinations of cord structures in contemporary music teach more about music theory than any other presentations on You tube.
Kander and Ebb used this chord progression in the song 'Nowadays' from Chicago. Maybe this time from Cabaret is very similar too.