We’ve already seen Ed Sheeran claiming that he can play any song in the charts using the same four chords, but now a YouTuber has gone one better than that (or maybe two less) by showing you how to ...

For bottom end, the Sub preset from Spitfire’s Piano Pads instrument plays octave root notes of each chord. Step 4: For our eight-bar verse section, we drop out the two pads, leaving just the Soft ...

Answer: they all use the same four chords. As do countless other well-known songs. Which just goes to show, you don’t need Songsmith to write a tune with an insultingly small amount of effort ...

Almost every song in the pop charts is built around the same four chords. And it's nothing new – they're the same three chords that Pachelbel used in his famous Canon. But why do we keep coming back ...