Yeah, that's what I'm working with. I learned a lot of things in a textbook kind of way, but it all comes down to real music application.
Lately I've been slogging through this musical theory stuff involving neighboring chords. C is the easiest key to play and talk about with A minor as its relative. It's really easy to see these chord relationships on a keyboard while a guitar is more complicated. Anyway, if you go one chord up or down in key, this chord will share 0 notes with the starting chord. So C shares 0 notes with B and D. If you go two chords up or down, these chords share 2 notes with the starting chord. Am and Em share 2 notes with C. If you take a bass note such as C and play 2 chords up in key, essentially Em/C, you get the 7th chord that fits in your key. Em/C is essentially just Cmaj7. If you go down, you get a 6 chord. Am/C is essentially C6. This works with any chord you choose in the key.
I found a cheap trick kind of application that might actually make some good music if used well. Basically, you just retain a bass note while altering the upper notes of a chord to the next chord up or down. This switches all the basic triad notes to a bunch of extensions. Since it's a chord alternation, it'll be very open to this change. From there you can switch chords, go back to the basic triad, or go up to the 7th that's two chords higher. On a guitar it's easy to accomplish this with open string bass notes.
I've also been working with bringing the notes of the previous chord to the current chord. I was working on this with a simple A minor only background. So you just bring the notes of a G chord up to A minor. This gets you making strong 2 note phrases that end on a note in the chord. Then you can explore the next chord up, B diminished going back to A minor. Then you can try bounce backs and bounce ups where you start on A minor go to the preceding or following chord and then go back to A minor. Then you can play some run throughs from a note in A minor to the next note in A minor with a non-chord tone in between. Then you can try going from out of chord notes to the various notes in the chord to get away from simple step changes to more interesting leaps. Then after warming up like this, you can try using your intuition to put all of this together and try doing it on more complicated progressions than just one chord.
If you want something fun to analyze this one I'm working on
Slashes indicate passing notes basically
You noticed your guitar was out of tune and then you fixed it. That makes me feel a lot better. I met a lady who could sing in tune once, but couldn't notice her guitar was out of tune. I used to do chord progressions, but these days if I worked on music, I would be more focused on melody. Melody is where the magic happens. I really just don't do much music stuff these days. The last thing I worked on was learning I got the album with this song when it was in its first year, and this song was one of the highlights of the album.
Now I'm analyzing the chords, and I see the craziness of it all. It starts with C with a little bridge to an A flat augmented chord.
Then it's Dm9 with E7. Then it goes to C and then F#. At that point I'm like, "This is totally insane!" He just jumped down a tritone to F# while starting in the key of D minor where the 3rd is F.
I still need to complete this. I'm an unfocused lazy bum at music.
Lol. It's definitely not perfect tune. Guitar beat to shit relative to a missing tuning peg
It's not so simple that I know it's key just by looking at it. At times I'm a bit unsure of the chords listed due to the writing. I'd assume you're starting with a G center and Am7 and B anything isn't going to change that. Is that B flat on line 2. Are you suggesting those two chords at the end of line 2 are a new variation of the chords on the first line?
My initial interpretation of section 2 is that it wants to start off centered around E minor with the E major chord being a substitution. Going to A and A7 makes it Dorian. It could be a sort of classic blues trick where the chords are major but everybody else is going in the minor key. I'm not sure where it's going from there.
Eb passing tone from intro to main progression
I'm feeling quite satisfied knowing that I can identify a 7 chord just by hearing it. I know that sound. Honestly, it's not a sound I like very much. It sounds very traditional. I'm being a little hypocritical, because it's part of the Oasis sound. When playing around with my own progressions, I like to use the 7th as a bass note such As A/G instead of A7. It can also be interesting to change the bass note.
My hearing of things taking place on guitar is way better than for other instruments. Piano and bass are probably second best since it's vibrating strings. Stuff like brass instruments and organs. I don't recognize what's going on as well. I've got 30 years of mostly guitar playing behind me.
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