Songs That Use All 12 Notes

From David Bennett Piano.

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Many songs will spend their entire duration using just the 7 notes of the diatonic scale. But others will venture beyond and use notes from beyond the key, and sometimes a song will even wind up using all 12 pitches!

SOURCES:




https://scispace.com/pdf/an-analysis-of-arnold-schoenberg-s-suite-for-piano-op-25-2j1ub90gt2.pdf
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/radiohead-interview-golden-age-radiohead

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0:00 Introduction
0:40 John Williams
2:10 Paul Simon
2:55 Metallica
3:12 Girl From Ipanema
3:50 The Beatles
4:24 Nirvana
4:53 Radiohead
6:00 All The Things You Are
6:50 Scale degrees
8:43 Pianote
9:10 All 12 major chords in one song
10:07 Chromatic scale
11:53 Circle of Fifths
13:26 Schoenberg
14:15 Conclusion