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Because there are over 1,000 songs with 3 Chords, no-one uses the fourth chord any more. Check out 50 years of Status Quo albums, and apart from their experimental period when they tried the fourth chord, all their songs only have 3 chords. This originated from the 1950's when Chuck Berry tried a fourth chord on an early song but the record label rejected it as being too complicated. All his songs after that went with the tried and tested 3 chord formula. Progressive bands like Yes and Genesis in the 1970's have been known to over-complicate songs with a fourth chord, and sometimes even a fifth one although that is regarded as "showboating" by the industry.

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