The piece is told through elaborate monologues and three-chord songs.

However, the popularity of the three-chord song has always remained, particularly in punk rock.

She regained respect for the basic three-chord songs of country, soul and folk.

Through the years, it gradually added layers of synthesizers to its three-chord songs.

Durango 95 is a three-chord song with the bass following the root notes.

The original song is basically a three-chord song, and I knew that wouldn't fly.

Since these songs have only three chords, they are sometimes called three-chord songs.

It is easy to play, as a simple three-chord song, and thus is popular with those learning to play guitar.

Many country, blues, rock, pop, and punk songs are three-chord songs.

She was a poet turned rocker, tapping and then redoubling the energy she found in basic three-chord songs.

A three-chord song is a song whose music is built around three chords that are played in a certain sequence.

And the set included the program's best "La Bamba," a three-chord song that originated as a son jarocho.

Perhaps the most prevalent type of three-chord song is the simple twelve bar blues used in blues and rock and roll.

They also played longer, slower, and more complex songs at a time when many bands in their milieu stuck to a raw, fast, three-chord song format.

They are based on the first, fourth, and fifth scale degrees (the tonic, subdominant and dominant - see three-chord song).

"As an artist," Mr. Norman said, "after you've done four albums and they're all three-chord songs, what are your internal energies in terms of growth?

His scruffy voice and folky, three-chord songs tell stories and conjure expansive, openhearted romance.

Rolling Stone would later label "Cherry, Cherry" as "one of the greatest three-chord songs of all time."

The major chords are highlighted by the three-chord theory of chord progressions, which describes the three-chord song that is archetypal in popular music.

Back in the 1970's, rockers dressed up, plugged in and strutted around with stomping three-chord songs and gleeful cartoon machismo.

When Undercover released its first album in 1982, it was described by some as "Christian punk," characterized by high-energy anthems, rebellious themes, and short, three-chord songs.

The Jesus and Mary Chain plays concise three-chord songs that owe a lot to the Ramones and the Velvet Underground.

It was an old-fashioned rock concert of three-chord songs, twanging guitars and mostly unchoreographed hip-twitching; there wasn't even a video crew around to turn the show into a video clip.

Trio's main principle was to remove almost all the ornamentation and polish from their songs, and to use the simplest practical structures (most of their songs were three-chord songs).

In the mid-1960s, two of the most popular bands, The Beach Boys and The Beatles, began releasing songs that stretched the scope of rock and roll beyond three-chord songs.