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NAVIGATION

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Try it. Feel it. Then imagine having 260 more.

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🔍 Breakdown: "Hey Joe" retrogression

Progression: C – G – D – A – E

Key: E Mixolydian

Roman Numerals: ♭VI – IV/♭VII – ♭VII – IV – I

Style Tags: Retrogression · Rock · Emotional · 1960s

Some chord progressions push the story forward.

This one pulls you back — into memory, regret, or descent.

You've heard this in "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix — and felt its slow, inescapable gravity.

That's because it moves backward through the Circle of Fifths. Not forward.

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🎧 Listen to the Magic

C - G - D - A - E

Hey Joe Retrogression.mp3