Don’t Stop Believin’ (a brief history of pop music)


This is a really worthwhile video to check out. It isn’t on YouTube or Google Video, so I can’t embed it here, but follow the link. This guy plays a chord sequence from “Don’t Stop Believin’” by the band Journey and sings about 20 different popular tunes over it. It shows you how much similarity there is in rock and pop song chord structure.


The History of Pop Music in 4 Chords So many songs, so few chords.

I especially like how there is some guy in the room playing video games through the whole video. If you’d like to hear the original Journey tune, here it is:

November 24, 2006 · Filed Under humor, videos

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2 Responses to “Don’t Stop Believin’ (a brief history of pop music)”

  1. Tyler B on November 25th, 2006 4:39 am

    Hey what about the bass gangs version . I think oyu can hear the whole thing on one of the double bass podcasts. http://www.thebassgang.org/avf/dbassata/1jump.mp3

  2. Remie on February 25th, 2010 11:37 pm

    Do you knwo if there is sheet music for that, me and my buds are trying to find it so we can play it as a bass group for our school concert

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