[Smt-talk] I-II-IV as a progression

[Steven Rosenhaus]

I too agree that the I-II-IV is "indigenous to rock." "Atlantis" does  
this, as does (I recall) "Eight Days a Week" and several other Beatles  
songs. In fact, I think it's one of Paul McCartney's personal cliches.

What I find interesting is the pyschological effect the progression  
has, on me at least. The II almost always strikes me as V/V--which is  
a predictable response--but what happens next is that the IV sounds  
(to me, I must emphasize) not as a set up for plagal candence but  
rather as an extended V chord (V 11) missing the root. In other words,  
I hear it as functioning as a V in a weird but real way.

Does anyone else hear it this way?

Steven Rosenhaus

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