Analyzing the Perfect Chords from "We Are The Champions" by Queen

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This video is a musical analysis of the chord progression in "We are the Champions" by Queen. We will see things like key changes/modulations, modal mixture, secondary dominants, and secondary leading tone chords. Lots of complex changes for a song that might seem basic on the surface.

The following topics are touched upon, and you can go further into any of these topics by watching the lessons I've taught on them:
Writing chord progressions in Major:    • How To Write Chord Progressions - Songwrit...  
Writing chord progressions in Minor:    • How to write Chords and Songs in Minor [So...  
Secondary Dominant Chords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py4Ha...
Diminished Chord Basics:    • Deconstructing Diminished Chords - Music T...  
Using Diminished Chords:    • 5 Easy Ways to Use and Write with Diminish...  
Modal Mixture:    • Using Modal Mixture for Dreamy and Epic Me...  
Modulations:    • Intro to Modulations and Key Changes [SONG...  
The I - iii change:    • The Secret to Sounding Sad in Major - Medi...  
Here are my previous videos on Perfect Progressions:
Bruno Mars - If I Was Your Man:    • Analyzing the Perfect Chords from "When I ...  
The Beatles - Something:    • Analyzing the Chords from George Harrison'...  

A few things to note, that did not make it into the video:
Many of you may "hear" or "feel" a i - bVII instead of a i - v for the intro like I pointed out. That's fine! There is no ONE way to interpret this chord, and often times, we have to choose a name based on our own experiences.
The second half of the verse is Eb - Ab/Eb. I forgot to talk about how nice and soft a I-IV can be when the bass note does not change- in this instance, Eb remains on the bass. It's about as soft and pleasing as two chords can get IMO.

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Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:29 The Intro Chords
06:21 The Chorus Chords
07:00 The Tone of the Chords
08:04 The Chorus Continued
11:48 Closing Out the Chorus
16:18 The Format of the Song
17:27 What I Learned From This Progression