Showing posts with label chords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chords. Show all posts

Sunday, October 14, 2018

"Lovely to See You"

I just figured out the chords and at least part of the main guitar phrase in "Lovely to See You" and noticed a couple things.

The song is in E major (the verses just alternate between E major and A major), but the bridge is comprised almost entirely of chords with accidentals.  It's |: F major | G major :| F major | E minor | A major.  Musically, these foreign tonalities help to portray the "far away" nature of the "forgotten lands."  Additionally, "far" is sung with a melisma (E F), musically giving a sense of distance.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

"Procession"


A couple days ago, I learned the flute and guitar parts for a section of "Procession" (~3:26 to ~3:37).  I wanted to use actual flute on this, rather than substituting the mellotron flute voice like I did for "Nights in White Satin," especially because this is a fairly simple part and all of the notes are in my limited range.  Recording it gave me a lot of trouble though.  Part of the difficulty is just that I'm not very good at flute (I slowed the tempo down considerably to make it a bit easier for myself), but I don't think I even have the right type of microphone to record flute.  I did the best I could.

I think the original track uses a nylon-string guitar, but since I don't have one, I just used my steel-string acoustic.  I've been looking into getting a nylon-string guitar, but it's not very high on my priority list.

Here's the notation for the flute part:


And the guitar chords, strummed once on the first beat:

|: D major | G major :| A major | D major

Of course, both of those come with the disclaimer that I might have something wrong.