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Plenty of no-question I-bVII-IV-IV progressions exist, like ACDC's Back in Black, Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow", Journey's "Anytime", “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, or J Geils Band's "Centerfold".
Here they are, if anyone's interested in what other I-bVII-IV-IV songs sound like. Nobody would say Back in Black is in A!
The real question is, what, if anything, makes SHA any different?
Back in Black (in E)
Don't Stop Thinking about Tomorrow (in E)
Anytime (in E)
Centerfold (in G)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Intrigued....
Simply take the 3 chords C/D/G
Take the notes from those chords
C-E-G D-F#-A G-B-D and which scale (or derivative scale) is it? Gmajor........
Not saying that other scales cannot be played over the chords, or other basic tonality cannot be heard......
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Here's the full quote, so there's no confusion:
But I remember when I recorded that in Atlanta, like we recorded that song four days after we wrote it. And we were thinking about putting it on the first album because our first album wasn't even out yet, but Al Kooper wanted to save it for the second album. But Kooper argued with me the whole time I was there, saying "You're playing the solo in the wrong key." Because it starts on a D chord but it really resolves in G. It's really in the key of G. And he says "The solo should be in D." And he, unbeknownst to me, was telling the rest of the guys, "Look, we can't have this guy do the solo on the record."
But the guys stood behind me. You know why they stood behind me? Because they said, man, he saw the solo in a dream. And you know how like the whole Southern mysticism thing really kind of fell in, played in my hands, because I'm not that big into Southern mysticism, you know? I'm from Southern California. But I figured, well, it meant enough to them that I saw it in a dream that it has to be used. I thought that was pretty cool.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Lol ok - it's in D (today) . And anyway, your whole premise is that it's what it is purely BECAUSE of the way they play it! There's plenty of V IV I I songs around, just look at punk - but you hear it as a I VII IV IV, because of how they play it. Not because it's D C G G so therefore it must be in D. But because of the phrasing and the rhythm and the notes. And I completely agree with that approach. It always comes down to the phrasing and the rhythm and the notes.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.