
One thing to know about before you begin is called ‘Key’. In some of the above cases the song may have sections that include other chords, but I’m sure you have a sense of how much these chords allow you to do.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Under the Bridge.Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes.Troye Sivan (from Frozen) – Let it Go (chorus).It amazed me that that simple progression could inspire such quantity and variety of melodies. So, even if you’ve hardly touched a keyboard before, it mightn’t be beyond the imagination to learn those four chords and give yourself the chance to play the accompaniment to a huge list of songs.īelow is a by no means exhaustive list, compiled with the help, amongst others, of the amazing Axis of Awesome:


We could only tune the radio to one station, playing popular music, and as the songs cycled by, I started to realize that maybe a third of them featured the same four chords, nearly always for the same length each. I remember hiring a car on a holiday a few years ago.
