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Further to my earlier thread about picking up the guitar over the holidays: I find that some chord sequences make me hugely happy. I came across this by accident:

Em D G D Em
If I look hard enough into the settin' sun
Em D G D A B7
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes

... it's from "Paint it Black", Rolling Stones. I can now play it on the guitar, albeit ham-fistedly.

Any more?

I do wonder why/how we have evolved to like music, and in particular to get a big high from occasional small snippets of it like this, but that is perhaps for another thread.
L

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Ah yes the magic of chord progressions, the magic of music

In reply to BusyLizzie:

By far my favourite chord sequence:
{ Bmin7 Dmaj7 Amin7 Emin7 }x2 { Bmin7 C#min7 G#min7 F#min7 }

Another one that's fun to play is the chord sequence from Pachebel's canon
C G Am Em C F C G

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Pick a major chord and follow the circle of fifths clockwise and you get Hey Joe by Hendrix in thw key of whichever chord you started with.

In reply to BusyLizzie:

How about 'the Tristan chord'?

In reply to Skipinder:

not really a sequence though.

In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

Good point, well made, deserves a reply.

In reply to Skipinder:

great chord though. One of my favourites is this- youtube.com/watch?v=tbArUJBRRJ0&

In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

I love the strings. It sounds like it should be in a David Lynch film.

In reply to all:
Thank you for all these ideas. I am going climbing now (not taking the guitar), and will look at them properly later!

In reply to SenzuBean:






Actually, that's not right (having played it on the cello about a million times).
In C it would be: C G Am Em F C F G
But the original's in D, in which case: D A Bm F#m G D G A

In reply to SenzuBean:

Would that be cannon in D maj? The clue's in the name

(only joshing by the way)

JW

In reply to BusyLizzie:

G B min (bar I'm afarid) Em C opening of A Day in the Life amongst other things

In reply to BusyLizzie:

I have given myself a really appalling stiff neck through playing the guitar in the wrong posture (no, not hanging from chandelier; bending over to look at my left hand). I got so desperate that I had my neck and shoulders massaged this afternoon. It felt wonderful. Then I went to the climbing wall with my daughter because she goes back to uni tomorrow. And now everything REALLY aches. I have inadvertently trashed my body. I am an idiot.

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Better today. Will talk to someone about guitar posture...

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Good example of how lots of songs use the same chord progressions

youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ&

In reply to BusyLizzie:



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In reply to BusyLizzie:

One of my favourites is:

C C G C G D : G G D G D G (x 5)

Which gives you the main riff to the AC/DC classic "You Shook Me All Night Long".

Another nice one to play is "Space Oddity" by Bowie: C Em C Em Am Am7 D

In reply to BusyLizzie:

F F7 Bb G7 F D7 Db7 F

When I'm cleaning windows

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Try Giant Steps by John Coltrane.

In reply to BusyLizzie:

The fact that the Pinball Wizard intro has not been mentioned yet is ridiculous.

In reply to Removed User:

Here's an interesting fact.

Try playing Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash BUT singing the lyrics to Pinball Wizard.

You'll find that they match exactly .

Many songs use common chords.

Lookup the four chord song on google / youtube.

In reply to Milesy:


youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I&

In reply to Pylon King Against Capit@lism:

Thank you for those! I shall investigate sparkly lycra then. Could use it for climbing as well as playing the guitar.



(ps was going to go to Goblin Combe today, armed with the diagram you kindly sent, but the weather gods saw us coming...)

In reply to Jack:



Thank you! I like that! I could do it on the piano until my neck gets better.

In reply to all:

Thank you all - lots of ideas to play with here!

L xxx

In reply to bpmclimb:

Ah yes you're correct, I was away from the guitar at the time and remembered it wrong. I have just played it and confirmed that it is indeed: C G Am Em F C F G

In reply to BusyLizzie:



I was there today and it was dry all day.

In reply to Pylon King Against Capit@lism:

Yes indeed, I heard it didn't rain after all - poo, grr!! (not growling at you but at the weather gods*) All day Saturday the forecast said 50% chance of rain all afternoon; 7a.m. Sunday it said 50% at 1300, 80% later. We didn't want to make the journey just for a short morning. And as a rule, if we set off to climb when there's a 20% chance of rain, it rains!!!

Ah well. We get rain. We get year-round green.


* Bother; now the weather gods will hate me for ever.

In reply to SenzuBean:

Just played it in C and the original D - still think the original sounds better, and has more scope for "twiddly bits"

JW

In reply to John Ww:
Try this jazz chord variation (will double check when I get home with the guitar if it's correct, but pretty sure it is):

332000 Cmaj7, 354005 Gmaj7+9, x02010 Amin7, x22033 Emin7,
x33210 Fmaj7, Cmaj7 (as above), Fmaj7 (as before), 320002 Gmaj7