Learn These Four Roman Numerals to Unlock Rock and Pop Music Forever

Jon Clemence
4 min readJul 26, 2022
Concert-goers attend a rock concert.
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I — IV — V — vi.

That’s it.

These four Roman numerals represent 75 percent of the music we listen to today. Learn how to apply them and you can almost instantly play thousands of songs.

And it’s simpler than you think.

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Jon Clemence

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