Q. I'm trying to figure out this song on piano but I can't find sheet music or tabs anywhere and I'm having trouble figuring it out by ear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djR-MEB6foE
Can anyone help me out with at least the chord progression for the main piano riff starting 5 seconds into the song? Thanks.
A. the chord progression is i--iv--v--i-v in the key of eminor.
More specifically including the extensions I think the progression is Emin7-Amin7-Bmin7-Emin-Bmin7 and the pianist embellishes the chords so ultimately the chord progression may be this:
Emin7-E9sus4-Emin7
Amin7-A7sus4-Amin7-A7sus4
B7susb2-B7no3rd-Bmin7-B7susb2
Emin-Bmin7
Can someone help me understand tritones on the piano?
Q. I know you use tritones or fill in chords in between the original chord progression but how do you know which tritone or fill in chord to use in that key or chord progression? And how do I play the right tritone for a passing chord or any chord for that matter?
A. if you're looking to add more passing chords between the original changes of a piece, there are lots of ways of going about it. adding a secondary dominant chord or a secondary II V are popular method.
let's say the original progression is a bar each of Cmaj7 Fmaj7 G7, for extra passing chords, one could add secondary dominant chords (Cmaj7 C7 Fmaj7 D7 G7) or secondary II V progressions (Cmaj7 Gmi7 C7 Fmaj7 Ami7 D7 G7) but the real dictating factor in what you can get away with is whether the melody works over the new chords though, one can add extensions/augmentations to chords to help the melody fit. A tritone substitution is another popular way to alter progressions. wherever there is a dominant chord a tritone substition can be made, assuming the melody can be accomodated. the most important two notes in a dominant chord (aka the V chord) are the 3rd and 7th (in G7, B and F) because they move by semitone (considered a strong resolution) to the 3rd and 1st of the Key Centre. if you use the dominant chord a tritone away, you maintain those strong semitone resolutions, except the bass movement is now also a semitone resolution. In C Major, the V chord (G7) can be substituted with Db7, because it also has F and B as it's 3rd and 7th and the Db resolving to C adds and extra bit of chromatic resolution which can be tasty in the right circumstances. The Berklee Press Makes some great books about this stuff, there is really an endless amount of ways to reharmonize in, it's an exciting topic to delve into and to hear well executed.
do the musician playing the 'head', playing the same chords the bass players is playing?
Q. i want to improvise playing the head part. all the info i have is the chord of the base player.
now assuming that the head player and the bass player are playing in the same chord, all i have to do is what? just play as i want with all the notes that constitutes the chord in play?
and give them some rythm to it?
great advice guys. now what sort of rythm i should be playing with these notes? just do what feels right?
A. I take it by your wording that you play guitar or piano?
The chords are the same for all the instruments (of course, trumpets, sax etc will transpose) meaning that the bassist will be playing the same chords as any other instrument in C.
As David S said, don't play all the notes in the chord - it's quite boring and leads to muddy chords; plus if you have a chord like C13b5 you might well run out of fingers! If you're looking for something simple to play then just play the 3rd and 7th from each chord. These are two most important notes of the chord other than the root. Try to stay away from the root note (it's the bass players job to play them) and the fifth (as these aren't really needed).
Therefore if you had a chord progression of Dm7 G7 CÎ (Î means major seven - so not flattened like normal 7) then you'd play F and C for Dm F and B for G7 and E and B for CÎ. As you can see you hardly have to move your fingers at all.
If you had a more complex chord progression like Bb13 Ab13 G7 Db9(#11) then you could start off by playing Ab and D for Bb13, Gb and C for Ab13, F and B for G7 and F and B for Db9(#11). If you wanted to play some other notes, play the extensions (the 13 or whatever) rather than the root or the fifth. Therefore you could play Ab D G for Bb13, Gb C F for Ab13, F B for G7 and F B Eb G for Db9(#11).
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