The Circle of Fifths Chord Progression EXPLAINED

Let's talk about the Circle of Fifths chord progression, and how it appears in songs you have heard before! Also there are variations to the progression and such. MUSIC THEORY

Listen to the originals as well, they're all bangers! In the future, when I upload non-video game music I'm probably going to continue making covers of the tunes, because I ain't about to get copyright claimed. I've listed all of the tunes I use in my videos in this excel spreadsheet, for ease of looking up:

00:00-00:28 Intro
00:00-02:24 What is Circle Progression?
02:24-04:02 4 Chord Circle Progression
04:02-17:28 Standard Circle Progression
17:28-19:31 Variation 1
19:31-20:47 Variation 2
20:47-22:46 Variation 3
22:46-23:45 Outro

Also thanks to random guy I found in my apartment and subsequently forced to play drums

[justmeandmythoughts]

It’s been scientifically proven that the best way to learn music theory is while watching Nintendo switch sports gameplay

[ashtarbalynestjar]

And then there's Mild High Club - Homage, where the scale degrees are LITERALLY IN THE LYRICS for some reason

[Ribiveer]

RE: the "My Ordinary Life" example, that song has this chord progression because it heavily samples the soundtrack of an anime called Nichijou: My Ordinary Life. Specifically the song "Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru" which means "Love softens even bullets". I highly recommend checking out the rest of the soundtrack too, there are a lot of gems to be found there!

[aravek]

punched my laptop at "let me play among us stars", good job

[giuseppeagresta]

4 minutes into this video and I think I'm in love with this channel already

Edit: 7:40 "looking at the melody, we can see it's literally the same thing copy-and-pasted but downwards; this is called a sequence..." I CAN'T-
That's the most hilarious way of explaining sequences I've ever heard
10:06 I did not imagine I'd hear all of a sudden my beloved FMA OP but here we are

[lucasschachtaudio]

To me it sounded like: IT'S MY - DON'T YOU

[thenyanrobot]

man i hope this channel is one of those that blows up randomly. your content is pretty good

[alexboone]

Y'all really jazzed up the sad Naruto song for the outro lmfao💀

Really cool video! The first time you played the progression at 4:58 my brain IMMEDIATELY went to I Will Survive and now you got me thinking about every song I've ever heard with this progression🥴

[MatrixEvolution]

I freaking love music theory.

20:55 at first this sort of reminded me of the main theme of Animal Crossing Wild World, mostly the I - IV - ♭VII7 - ♭III progression

[DavidDaminelli]

The way you presented the theory using images and musical examples was just amazing, a learned so much with this. Please keep up with this kind of video ❤

[WhitePaintbrush]

Omg you won't even believe the sheer excitement that hit me when I saw this pop up. New Cadence video, _and_ it's a twenty minute long deep dive on the chord progression that I just so happen to be obsessed with at the moment? Can't wait till I get off work to watch this!

[DylanClarkSallee]

Fantastic video! Even though I have very little knowledge of music theory, I was able to follow along. Plus, your obvious interest and love for the subject is infectious.

[DragonSlayerKillX]

WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS TAKING AP MUSIC THEORY THIS IS AWESOME

[randommodnar]

My fav progression, probably. I like how it shows up in all genres. For a recent example, it’s used in a cool way in the ED of the anime Metallic Rouge.

Variation 3 shows up in a lot of jazz (you can also hear it in the Kemono Friends OP)

[insederec]

It's hard to overstate just how masterful virtual insanity is as a whole

[icyespresso]

a classical music example of a major circle progression is the in first movement of grieg’s goldberg suite

[dedede]

damn i never noticed that phrasing in virtual insanity! thats so cool

[washedtoohot]

Wow, I want to thank you for this video. I’m a intermediate guitar player and my knowledge of music theory amounts to ‘chord progression = arbitrary sequence of diatonic chords and sometimes you can borrow chords.’ This video contains so much useful information. I feel like I can write my own music with more purpose than before. Thank you!

[SolarGold]

Thank you so much for your videos. I now understand a huge amount more about My favourite section of Music - Musicology. These videos have helped my compositions grow to become at least decent arrangements that actually sound nice. In High School, we don't have access to a more advanced form a music teaching (Music 2 in Aus) and have to learn basic compositions and performances (Music 1). Thank you again and I hope this reaches you!

[ethanarce]

why does this creator only have 19k up the good work!