LESSON #01 WITH J DOG
The sound of a major chord naturally draws to the note a fourth above. It's one of those funky little iron laws of harmonics and frequencies and whatnot. Accepting that, a D chord (major, mind you) wants to go to G. Similarly, an A chord wants to go to D.
Since the key of G is GABCDEF#G, we see to spell a chord on A gives us ACE, or A minor. By bending the rules you can play it A major (AC#E) and it draws to the D much stronger than A minor would have. Then from D you can go home to G.
In the example I gave they kind of combine the two steps, taking us from A major to G/D (G chord with D in the bass, an "inversion" if you will).
Clear as mud?
And yes, Paul, I have considered that many times.
Since the key of G is GABCDEF#G, we see to spell a chord on A gives us ACE, or A minor. By bending the rules you can play it A major (AC#E) and it draws to the D much stronger than A minor would have. Then from D you can go home to G.
In the example I gave they kind of combine the two steps, taking us from A major to G/D (G chord with D in the bass, an "inversion" if you will).
Clear as mud?
And yes, Paul, I have considered that many times.
Well JDog, I am cornfused with this whole thread. Paul, if a Brobdingnagian giant is only 12 times larger than Gulliver (according to Jonathan Swift in his Travelungen), then how can he be universally related to an atomic scale Gulliver less than 10 to the 34th power smaller than him (not one-twelfth) in an inversion of chord patterns involving varying roots placement up the same key signature? Like most suns in harmonic balance, I would be doubly satisfied, but for this tendency of A Major to want to resolve up to A Colonel and thence to A General. Donald Sutherland did this up really well in a thumbnail view with Boone and Katy in Animal House, IIRC...
Y'know, come to think of it, I have GOT to stop logging on to this Forum just after visiting the Red Cross RV (that's Recreational Vampire) bus myself. I think my dipstick is about a quart low right now....
And they were out of cookies and orange juice too
Y'know, come to think of it, I have GOT to stop logging on to this Forum just after visiting the Red Cross RV (that's Recreational Vampire) bus myself. I think my dipstick is about a quart low right now....
And they were out of cookies and orange juice too
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Oh man! SO DID I! I must be ill.....normally this wouldn't make any sense, Jdog & JB, you guys are making headway! THANK YOU!!!!
Oh man! SO DID I! I must be ill.....normally this wouldn't make any sense, Jdog & JB, you guys are making headway! THANK YOU!!!!
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