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Old 10-21-2009, 12:35 PM   #1
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http://sixsongs.blogspot.com/2009/10...ning-rain.html - picture and
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Old 10-21-2009, 01:28 PM   #2
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fun!

and they're playin in my fave key....the license they've taken with the alt chord progression (root to 3- mjr? F#>A ie. D>F) is so 60s ...mr Stinson might call it '60s sweet'...anyhow, it sits fine with me...i imagine all dig that Monkeesque groove
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Old 10-21-2009, 01:59 PM   #3
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Boy I never thought I would hear T.G.D. do a Lightfoot song. And to think it was recorded in 1965, while they were still known as the Warlocks.

I had never heard of this before, I guess Gordon Lightfoot's music is on many different Albums & all over the world.

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Old 10-21-2009, 08:29 PM   #4
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(root to 3- mjr? F#>A ie. D>F)
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Are hieroglyphics allowed on this forum ?
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Old 10-21-2009, 10:11 PM   #5
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Old 10-24-2009, 08:49 AM   #6
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ahh, objection overruled, thank you

you do see math symbols in music scores ( + - X / etc) but true, i may be the first and last to use the greater than sign to denote an unconventional chord progression when charting...my aim has always been to confuse band member using all available means

i like when folks talk in a generic Nashville numbering sense, that way the key choice can be refined later and capo users and purists can live in harmony

for he EMR example I believe most guitarists would play in D (with or without capo..i think the actual key is likely F for Gord's version...it's F# or Gb for the Dead version)

in D, the standard western music chord patterns would be:

1 D major (the 1 chord or note in the scale is the 'root')
2 E minor
3 F# minor
4 G major
5 A major
6 B minor
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so by making that "3" chord flat (the - symbol), the F# becomes F...and then a major instead of a minor...and you get the "3- mjr"

Gord's chord change for the "aching in my heart" section would, let's say, go from D to G but the Dead are going from the D > F... which is relatively same F# > A

depending on the genre, when 'fill in' band members are common, they either play all by feel supplemented by a cheat sheet and using the '>' sign is a way of letting them know an unconventional progression is upcoming...i suppose a highlighter would also work, depending on club lighting

as i say, i like a twist on a tune, especially an overheard one...the startling thing is that the Dead did this arrangement some 45 years ago, when i hadn't even heard the tune yet...there certainly are many who cross 'the line' and might just wanna leave well enough alone...i mean 'great enough'
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Funny they didn't officially release their first LP till 1967.
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Old 03-25-2012, 10:01 PM   #8
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Wow, thanks for sharing the link. It did this old LightandDeadhead a lot of good to hear this cover. A big part of the Dead's repertoire over the years were adaptations of folk tunes, so I have always wondered why a few of Gord's tunes didn't make it into the mix. They could have done great things with Yarmouth Castle, among others.

Of course they both covered Me and Bobby Mcgee, two of my favorite versions of KK's classic.
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