What happened to all the chords?
What happened to all the chords? Here, Ben Morss explores in detail why songs featuring multiple chord progressions have become such a rarity in today’s Top 40 songs, with single-progression tracks now largely ruling the roost . Guest post by This article originally appeared on Ben Morss’ Single-Progression Songs These days, a typical Top 40 song is built on a single chord progression. By this, I mean that the same pattern of chords repeats from the beginning of the song until its end. For convenience, let’s call songs like this “single-progression.” Songs in which the chord prog...