Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

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Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

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null_pointer wrote:...as an aside, anyone else have Sweet Home Alabama used as the D Mixo example when having this explained to them for the first time?
- I'm going to say it should be considered in the key of Dmaj, SCOM in Dbmaj. Both use a borrowed bVII7 chord ( the descending whole tone movement)

- People might think of a song being in a certain key by the way it feels or resolves. This clearly in some ways is subjective.

- I might write something on the stave in a key to save on overusing accidentals on the staff lines.

- Having a key symbol indicated (before the time signature) also will not tell the student is it Cm or Ebmaj as both 3 flats (Ab, Bb, Eb)
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hamo wrote:
foal30 wrote: troublesome to finger
Where was jb on this one? The man is slipping.
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As far as learning songs as a band go, some of the kiwi tunes are deceptively tricky. Dominion Road took a bit of work. There's subtle rests and parts with tricky timing to get right, for us uneducated hacks anyway.
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To be fair, all the music academics I’ve spoken to about technical matters involving keys, descriptions etc point out there is no right or wrong but rather just matters of convention.

When I refer to a “key” I will base that on reference to the tonal centre and the “flavour”. Eg A Dorian. Because that’s the most informative. But I do agree that when I was doing my classical training “key” meant either the major or minor to which the key signature related and one n ver talked in terms of modes.

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It’s easier if you drop D and play it that way...

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Re: Top 40 cover band: hardest song to play on guitar

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Late to the party, but +1 on Mr Brightside being right up there, although admittedly I've never properly sat down and given it too much time. Not Top 40, but there are a few acoustic riffs from John Mayers first album in particular which my hands just physically aren't big enough to play...

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This bloke just came round to check out (and buy) an acoustic for his daughter.

Man, I don’t know what he was playing, but if that was noodling I have a way to go.

Was probably top 40 in the blues and flamenco charts some time ago. Wow.
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