Looks like a great program, on sale for a one time payment of $47, lifetime access, and 60 days to get a refund. Tell me the 4 chords now and I will lean heavier into buying your program.

What's there to learn?

I hate this shit just put the dam chords it’s easy look u have E F G A B C D E flats and sharps in between a what are the chords :d

Diatonic chords... there's nothing interesting here. Besides, there are many pop songs that break that mold. This isn't the artist's fault. Fans like simple diatonic tunes, so artists will write to the fan's tastes, you know, if they want to eat and pay the bills.

@@SudiptaMondal-cl5br can you pls tell me them I just got a guitar and I want to learn them so I can play those songs

Some truth yo!

This means that the moust of people have shit in their heads.

that's because all the music in the pop charts is the same crap except REN

Pity jazz sounds so bad😊

I think you could put alphaville, Elton John, maroon 5 and almost every other hit that's there to make the song sound good.

Exactly, it shows how untalented and un origional they are, they pump out an algorithmic song and people think it's talent cause they don't know any better

The band Axis of Awesome has a song called 4 chords about this very thing. Pretty funny skit they put on. If goes from modern songs to commerical jingles to 80s to everything basically with the same four chords.

Let it be uses 7 chords idk what he was playing

It's the main reason why I turn off the radio and listen to my old school CDs. The crap on the radio is pure garbage.

@@James-kj9hw That's because nobody can mimic The Beatles.

People now nothing about music those days. Even ed sheran knows he would be nobody 50 years ago

​@@siemniak Lol no he wouldn't. He is one of the single most talented artists today and has tons of footage showing he could easily hang with anyone 50 years ago. What an L comment from someone who knows nothing.

@@brandonbuckles826 what i meant that his music 50 years ago would be nothing. Besides he is nothing but an average singer of course he is a very good musician and probably would find his way 50 years ago but not with this type of music. His music is typical modern stuff done for the masses, that are well known for being completly deaf and stupid. Nothing interesting about it definitely not some genius lvl songwriting and perfomerming and if you believe it's diffrent than definetly it's you , that know nothing about the music. If fact, writing that he is above average in anything is quite painful to see, and a testament on how much you do not know anything. At least he knows it quite well, which he is even trying to show you and others on the video. But you are like this girl and interviewer. Somebody tells you im gonna play shit to show you how modern music is all the same and simple, and they and you are amazed by it. Probably he died inside seeing their amazement by few chords and melodies any decent singer would song perfectly even while taking a shit. Just goes to show celiebetries are just celebrities fot the sake of being celiebetries.

He was doing this because of the lawsuit - which he won.

I agree... good point 😊

His lyrics are some of the worst in pop music history, what are you talking about?! “Crumbling like pastries”. Cringe!

@@derekandre31I also can’t stand that particular lyric but all his lyrics are lazy and cringe

@@doctormelody Absolutely. Especially when he tries to rap. I get nauseous.

​@doctormelody yall definitely projecting, the hundreds or millions of other people in the world clearly have a massively different pov

That's when the jazz musician does it and the only guy in the audience claps politely

hahahahahahaha

And never be able to do it again the same way.

As a jazz musician, I definitely agree AHHAHAHA

😂😂😂

She got moist you mean

Shes crazy

Whats her name ​@marouanbis1712

Not a little. She melted completly😂

Nah she was wet

No it's I V vi IV. You can move the chords to any key.

Is it legendary? Or is it the reason serial killers are made because of the loop in the mind

​@@joshbrucks I-V-vi-IV* ik it was just a typo

man if shit doesnt have Cm its not worth listening

@@vgmkas yeah mb

Not humans... just pop music. Almost every other genre breaks that pattern.

You find remembering _that_ much impressive? He only sang a few lines. You're easy to impress.

​@Dave Britton most of songs are written in 4 chords or less. This is a fact.

It's really that impressive? I remember the lyrics to over 100 songs and I never thought that's impressive. Just good memory to something you love.

@@vinlondon8904 Maybe the songs you listen to, but I was talking about lyrics. What is your point?

done long time ago

Hes a copy cat ...😅😂😅😅😂 just like ko rih yans and tsaaay kneeese 😅😂😅😂😅😂 that loves to copy japan😅😂😅😂😅

Thats how ed himself found out about it i reckon LOL

You and then read about music theory that this is BS. The songs are totally different

@@koenignero the songs as a whole, of course. But it’s the chords

Let It Be went back in the Billboard charts in Oct 2021 when it was reissued in a special edition. So it might have been in the charts when this was done.

Easy cheap music today

​@Nothing Matters you know that's not what he meant, also the Beatles are dogshit.

@@jimanderson5172 easy cheap comments too

Let it Be has a much more intricate chord progression than just those 4 chords. I'm sure that's why it was requested.

Literally he played the system and now hes collabing with the artists he actually likes

Jason mraz kinda did too. He plays a bunch of super unpopular funky stuff nobody knows about it likes, then he makes 'Im Yours' with the most basic 4 chords and it's one of the biggest songs of that decade. In his older music he even raps about (kind of bragging) that he could write a hit whenever he wants to.

​​@@JacksonMack3742ngl I'm yours is incredibly catchy

​@@JacksonMack3742 and hes damn right i loved I'm yours 😭

@@CJ-cz3hv hence all the random colabs he’s in the hood more than most rappers 🤣🤣🤣

And most of the music in the charts at the time we're his songs

​@@Backofthekop yeah😅 pretty much. Ed IS the pop king of our generation after all.

Yeah. I always have been a fan of old time Western swing because of my grandfather and the fact that the music is great but usually not overdone, paired with enough vocals to seal the deal

Thats why o listen rockn Roll

Pop as in popular, means that reach out for the most who likely didn't had the chance to attend school of music:)

Yeah this is pre scripted and pretty pathetic

...let it be

the beatles just recently hit the charts with their re release of revolver this could’ve been when they re released let it be although i doubt it but after-all the beatles are iconic and the best and most influential band in my opinion and let it be is one of their most popular

Yeeaaah..When that dude said "The Beatles" .. I had this moment 😐

u mad? lads like passenger and craig or even bigger names like The weeknd can only dream of a success like the beatles

Yeah exactly. Even Ed stole it 😅 That's originally from: Axis of Awesome and it's even called: 4 chords song ✌

​@@dondemonico love axis of awesome but this existed well before that. As a music teacher Ive been doing this with students forever. Nothing new.

Pachabel wrote Canon in D and we just never stopped playing it.

@@BryanWillis1 yeah, I know there's a book with this theory (idk the name of the theory) and that this theory is around for a while. But no one did it in a song, before Axis of Awesome 😉✌️

@@dondemonico dude chord progression is not something that belongs to someone. Its just called being simple music theory.

i just normally listen to AI recreations of cavemen screams from 200.000BC

@@zkbrhodas8753 Gargamel?

In this clip he sings no better than any party singer with a guitar I've ever heard.

tell me what

@@jefrebugni4064 i think he was referring to the fact that any mediocre guitar player can fit any pop songs into the chord progression Sheeran was talking about.

@@ctx4241 who’s sheeran

@@jefrebugni4064 Ed Sheeran

@@disos450 you guys are dull

True

It’s just a I V vi IV very boring but they did it well

@@FrostyLosty lol I know that, but most people don't understand music theory like that.

The Beatles are overrated IMO.

​@@vr6one and theres is always this guy, bro no one is talking about how good they are xd

...Ron who??!?...wtf then who is this?🤔

🤣🤣🤣

Explain?

😂😂😂

I'm not a musician and I felt the pain 🤦‍♂️

​@@lessacto this is not Ed Sheeran being a good musician. It's just catchy songs can be played on the same cords over and over.

And that's why it's so fucking repetitive

Not lately... ever. There's a song called the 4 chord song, look it up

He played the beetles. Lol that's not lately.

It's even deeper. He's proving that he didn't steal someone's melodies He's been sued twice over this premise.

No he isnt, they weren't written to the same chord progression. He is changing the vocal melody to fit one specific chord progression.

Try any song and used this chords G.Em.C.D that 4 chords can play any song.. different strums different song..

@@johnpauldavocol8181believer imagine dragons

Fr I also thought this,Ed Probably just told them that they should ask him to play those songs but he don't play it to them behind stage so their reactions can be true

Nigga Beethoven heard this same criticism about note variance and made a masterpeice *with 4 NOTES* Shut up

Only within the Western sphere. When you try with any other culture, then it's just a different 4 chords.

😂😂 good shit man.seriously they don’t get it at all.

Axis of awesome did it first

​@@aaronmicalowe you made absolutly no connection to what the comment actually said. Way to go my man, next time, maxbe read what was said.

Pop musics aimed at those with simple minds 🤣

Pretty demeaning

@@joshyboi2447 But true

Gate keeper

​@@frankiemazzei8882wide audiences who aren't super into music

indeed... who is she?

​@@AntonySimkinHer name is Yolanthe Cabau a dutch celeberty.

@@udilatu1207 thank you :)

She was eyeing Ed like he was an icecream.

They still have charts? Lmfao! How is that even possible when this is the worst era in music history. Talent is no longer required. This guy would've been lucky being able to sing for free drinks in rundown bars if he came out in the 60's-90's.

​@@jeffreyval9665 Well at least the poor bastard ain't rapping. 😒

​@@jeffreyval9665you realize this started with duwap chord progression in the 50s? He literally applied this to a beatles song. Music industries always been a machine, except for outliers like hendrix and others who break the norm and revolutionize the actual art these business men turn around as product.

@@jeffreyval9665agreed. All songs are the same, I can hardly find anything unique in love songs, pop, and anything that’s not metal or rock. That’s all I listen to cause it’s all that sounds good to me anymore

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes A, Am, and E

C Am F G ?

​@@1nfius948that would be 7 then 😂😂

No one wants to play an F

@@mikeb8913 Thats a C scale though.

FINALLY SOMEONE KNOWS!!

Correct

The point being made here is not about the key, it's about chord progressions. Of course you could transpose any song, but even then, not all songs revolve arround the same chord progression. If you go to different musical genres or even venture into other musical cultures, transposing will not enable you to play most songs using these 4 "magic" chords

It isnt about transposing. It is commonly known that charting songs centre around gcd and eminor just work well together 3 positive notes and 1 negative sounding just makes a rhythym. In saying that i know fuck all about music and i know they do drift away from these but i know majority of number 1 songs have had those 4 chords at the core

what he is showing is that all POP music is the same and purposely watered down to suck the intelligence out of those that can't think for themselves.

🎯 (I scrolled to find this)

I can’t not hear this now

Same four chords, if you're interested Google the four songs of pop

Said maybe

@@stanleyteng6484 you’re gonna be the one that saves me

TYhere`s a lot of good pop out there though, just not on the charts for the most part. Top 20, top 40 stuff is all the same :/

you right@@afrog2666

and every metalhead too

He makes it though so hes just as bad

Every non pop musician feels this way

Yup pop music is painfully lazy.

4 cord song by those 4 aussies

​@@siege2928 miss Michael jackson😮‍💨

​@@siege2928 this is why we migrate to kpop

@@atheoristspointofview7059 no

True. Though, it's important to play a song in the key it was written in. It's a major factor affecting the entire song

I hope I can play like this one day!

​@@RecordTempoSure If you jump head first into a wall you'll be halfway there.

@@old_timey_prospector I hope so!

@@RecordTempoSure I have to apologize, I misread your initial comment. I thought you were hoping to be able to play like Ed specifically. I'm pretty sure brain damage is an important factor there.

They really dont need to, you can just turn on your car radio and set it to any station that playes pop music.

In order to admit one must first deny. Nobody is denying it. It is not nefarious. It is a very common chord progression. Music is mostly about rhythm and time. The chosen chords signify key and tone.

That's actually a well known chord progression so you don't need to admit the obvious

Literally everyone admits to knowing this

been widely know for decades, but thank you Ed Sheeran for exposing this lol

It’s just known music he wants dumbass

To be fair imo if the song still appears when I turn on “generic national radio station” it still counts. It probably doesn’t as it isn’t actually in the charts but that’s just my way of categorizing songs.

​@d6995 The funny part is that you're wrong. Only 29 Beatles songs out of approx 200 use I IV V progressions. And the overwhelming majority of their songs use more than 4 chords.

@@ARTIQZ Yessiree. I do know! YER REEL SMRT!

HE said pop charts, but the hosts asked for that specific song - gosh, some people are just shining with intellect, aren't they.

maybe because not everyone knows music theory?

This isn't really music theory just showing how repetitive and unoriginal most of pop is

@@yaersacks5277 nah it’s music theory. He’s transposing some of these.

Not everybody knows music theory.... Stop being a fucking snob. I bet there's basic scientific facts you don't know

@@jrheeeeehe’s using the same 4 chords and singing them in that key, not transposing anything lol

I was looking for this comment

I've watched that many times. Brilliant.

Literally just commented the same thing then scrolled further down :)

yes!!

Glad too see some others remember

literally not even one

he avoided let it be

And Craig David lol

Their live video of the 4 chords song has 80 million views.

Thank you

Exactly what I thought of, chicken little

YES!!! This.

Came here to leave almost this exact comment

He still could've done it

One minor with 3 major comes under 4 cords progression. Fr eg. G, C, D followed by e minor.

@@flyingsnail4060 Yeah for sure, my bad, I thought he had said in the order of G D Em C. Rewatched the video. I guess a lot of songs have the progression starting with Em as you mentioned, like Snow and Save Tonight.

Pop songs are not in the minor key. He said any pop song on the charts.

No kidding😂

Ed did specify "Pop" song, but this is still funny haha

you get a pass on the pops miss for the fun twist. made me smile. thats work a like.

Moonlight sonata ain’t in the charts

😂

This is too funny 😂😂

Which 4 chords?

Pretty sure it's C - G - Am - F

1564 yep .. that progression is truly Catchy 🙏👍👏👏👏

@@tazz7830 depends on the key.

Easily done in any key, with a little painless study of some basic diatonic music theory. Jazz guitarists use this in any key by improvising over the II, the IV (five) and I chords, for example. Look up the whys and wherefores of a 2-5-1 progression :-)

They stole it from someone else, stupid

Exactly my thoughts

Chicken little 🤣 what a band 👍

As if they were the first

“Come on Barbie let’s go party!” 🤣…that bit still cracks me up just thinking about it!

Good on you! Tough it makes me personally kinda sad that modern music is mass produced in this way....

@@michaelmuller159 if by modern music you mean anything after the 1930s then sure.

@@slowpoke9364 With modern music I mean Pop music....

And if they weren't you can always change the tone of the song from a B to a G for example and it would still match

@@Allan_Stone gigachad yt commenter schooling "past was always better, pop sucks ehhhhh!!!" loser

This is exactly what I thought of!!

same thoughts 👀

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT!!

Love your name😁

@@findkevin thanks luv

Almost as if it's all scripted 😆

I’d assume that the interviewer had heard of the 4-chords thing before

​@@bigsmoke1887 too true.

Of course it’s Staged - “do you want me to bet you ?” - “Yea” - “somebody grab me a guitar” (Instant guitar out of nowhere in 2second) This whole show is staged bro

I'd have asked for strawberry fields lol

Every real guitarist has known this for ages. This isn't meant to be impressive, he's just showing people that pop music is simple. It should be encouraging everybody to start playing an instrument.

@@p90neck I know it's not impressive, maybe go comment on all the people saying it is

@@anon17472 I know you know, and I know other people know. But Ed and/or whoever edited this video seems to think that he has a special gift. He kind of does but that gift is an ultra pop-y voice and incredibly low standards. Most musicians can't do what he does cause they're busy trying to make better music.

@@p90neck it looks impressive if you can't play an instrument, I guess. But that's most "musicians" now anyway, just tell the computer to make sounds

And he is close to being a billionaire ! So his for cords are very expensive

Underrated comment

Alice in chains played those 4 chords too

Oasis are class lad

@@aaronhughes2550 yeah, they're not bad like.

@@Dnutty253 I do prefer it when Alice in chains play them tbh

That song is forever stuck in my head 😆

Chicken Little

I literally can't hear those songs anymore without having to sing the 4 chord song 🤣

Thank you.. I was trying to remember their name

But why the hell does a great "rock" band like Beatles have a 4 chord song? Like ever, why?

Came here to say that lol

Apparently stealing from TLC wasn’t enough for Ed

Yes

It will always be true. The video is a joke. LOL

I know lol people act like he's a genius for pointing this out

i mean you dont have to understand or be able to define it .. the guitar made 4 MF slightly different sounds ... he said 4 ... i think anyone can get the picture

@@kenzilbaptiste2519 ok 🙄

@@fokthewef lol nerd 🤓

@@dontcry1838 bet you were in the crowd 🤔

@@fokthewef ☝️🤡🥸🤓

They were the original pop band

​@@stevenshar1233they were psychedelic rock

@@Artheusslay they were the original term for pop, its now known as rocknroll, psychedelic rock, they even got prog rock, but back in the day it all just got down pop since it was POPular. The “genres” known in the POPular music at the time were: Jazz, Rock, Blues and Pop pretty much. Now with such evolution in music genres and music etiquettes I understand why you call them psychedelic rock. But every music artist has pretty much like 50+ genres in they whole catalog. We just generalise them or shorten them to 6-8 genres and styles

means they are timeless

They were the pop

THIS.

The reason this is important is because he just got taken to court, and won, against accusations of copying a song over the chords he used. In court he did this same routine and ultimately is what lead to him winning.

And the songs the anchor came up with were the songs that Axis sang too.

bro you unlocked a memory

Came here to make sure someone said this

I do. Im irritated at this actually,as i like some of sheerans songs but he should know better.

YUP and I have it as one of my offline storage KZfaq videos. I think it might still be on KZfaq but people like to recycle music AND ideas.

Axis did an awesome job with it too...

Wouldn't be the first time he's taken credit for someone else's work...

Saw them live and it was the best

Exactly this :)

I'm telling you.. any song 😎

He’s not that talented with guitar his voice yes but he’s just playing some simple chords

I think you missed the point, this wasn't him telling people he is the best, it was him dunking on pop music's simplicity.

This makes me feel old. I always remember the geeky ginger kid busking on the streets in Norwich before he was famous! 🤣 Thoroughly nice chap.

who’s “we”?

@dannybuck2047 Try doing it with la villa strangiato by rush and get back to me

we get it

@dannybuck2047 works for every genre? mate dont insult other genres, alot of metal has very heard riffs like megadeth riffs, not a simple 4 chord progression

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@@tylervoyer74 OP is quoting Ed Sheeran.

@@Neotheaterr that isnt what he said though.

"That isn't what he fucking said though." ~tylervoyer74 - 2023

@@mitchellfite879 lol

Yeah was literally my first thing I learnt at piano classes. The axis of awesome did a whole parody too it’s great

But there's only 1 Ed brah 😂

go do it then

What are those 4 chords. Could you please name them..

@SoftserveSodium “and today your challenge is to piss off every mainstream artist, or at least as many as possible” Crushed it, bro 😂