Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

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