The Greatest TWO Chord Song of All Time

those of you that have been watching this channel know that i made a video last year called the most complex pop song of all time it was the song never going to let you go which was released in 1983. i told the funny story of my friend smitty and i trying to learn this song which has 22 modulations for a gig we're like oh yeah no problem we can learn this play it for us and then the girl that wanted us to want to sing it with this guy and played it for us it was a total disaster right so i thought like what is the simplest song like how many songs can you write a song with three chords of course you can well what about two chords well there are actually some big hit songs with only two chords well i actually thought of three songs that i think are the top three two chord songs of all time you're gonna know what they are actually you're gonna know all three of these songs because they are famous songs what's interesting about them is that they have three different two chord progressions one of them is from four major to five major the next one is from one minor to flat six minor and the third is one minor to flat seven minor and as i thought about i was like you know what i think those are pretty much the only progressions that would really work maybe you could do one to four but i couldn't think of a good one to four song it's hard with one to four you kind of need that five for it to resolve but these other ones sound like complete songs and the reason that they sound like complete songs is because they have great verses and they have even better choruses and what happens in the choruses you'll notice in all three songs the harmony parts come in and they are the right harmonies and they also jump up in range so the choruses are in a higher range vocally and it makes them sound complete so for this episode i brought in two of my favorite youtubers one of them you see on my channel all the time but the other one has never been on my channel [Music] now there you go again you say you want your freedom well who am i to keep you down [Music] it's only right that you should play the way you feel it but listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness like a heartbeat drives you mad in the stillness of remembering what you had [Music] [Applause] [Music] thunder only happens when it's raining players only love you when they're playing say women they will come and they will go [Music] [Music] is off this band's debut record which was released in 1971. matter of fact the first song i ever learned is on the same record [Music] on the first part of the journey [Music] the first thing i met was [Music] [Music] to give [Music] [Music] the third song is off this band's second record which came out in 1991. i i thought about this does that really only have two chords yes it actually only has two chords as a matter of fact the producer of this record recorded the singer lying down playing the classical guitar in the control room doing the lead vocal [Music] is [Music] drippings it's okay they fish cause they don't have any feelings something in the way [Music] something in the way [Music] so those are what i think are the top three two chord songs of all time leave in the comments if you think that there are some other ones that are better than these i'm really curious i actually thought of other ones but i didn't think that they were necessarily better songs than this but i'd love to see what you guys come up with because this is really an interesting topic to me anyways that's all for now don't forget to subscribe ring the bell and leave a comment check out my new quick lessons pro guitar course that just came out also the biato book if you want to learn about music theory that's how you do it and check out my beato ear training course at biatoeartraining.com and don't forget if you want to support the channel even more think about becoming a member of the biato club thanks so much for watching [Music] you

Channel: Rick Beato

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Keywords: rick beato, everything music, rick, beato, music, music theory, music production, education, pop music, popular music, music composition, Harmony, Chord Progression, what makes this song great, ear training, music theory guitar, how to play guitar, two chord songs, Simplest songs, Nirvana, fleetwood mac dreams, a horse with no name, The greatest, The greatest songs, Countdown, 70s hits, 90s hits

Id: OpqAz0ZNQaY

Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 29 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/AccualyAmJusesCrust]

Sepultura be like 0-1-1

[u/Indetermination]

I dunno know about you guys but I've got a crush on Mary Spender like crazy

[u/Delusion_IS_rampant]

What I got?

[u/GerryB50W]

I prefer one chord songs

[u/marcelkroust]

TL:DW;

1313 is the new 035

/uj Then, to spare you having to click on this video and risking having clickwhore Beato in your feed for years, here it is :

1. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
2. America - A horse with no name
3. (EDIT because this was too much I couldn't finish watching the video) Nirvana - Something in the way

[u/Spike3220]

Most boring songs of all time, more like.

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uj/ Born In The USA is the best two-chord song of all time.