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Offlineferguitar

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Solid Rock Keyboard intro
« on: August 29, 2013, 10:41:10 PM »
Anyone here knows how to play it, im mean the chords and all? Its the alchemy/85 version. Theres a synth then a hammond, doing diferent stuff it seems....i cant seem to grasp it. Anyone can help me on this one? :hmm

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Re: Solid Rock Keyboard intro
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2013, 11:01:08 AM »
It just goes around the chorus chords doesn't it? A-Bm-G

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Re: Solid Rock Keyboard intro
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2013, 06:26:12 PM »
the middle should be D imho
A-D-G
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Re: Solid Rock Keyboard intro
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2013, 07:27:50 PM »
Speaking about chords? Mmmmm! :D

The thing with this intro is the pedal A note. So you can play it in two ways (on the guitar):
| A Bm/A | G | So the Bm chord with the A bass

Or you can play A on 5 fret of the 1st string on all the chords:
| A Bm7/A | G9 | But it is not very comfortable thing to play on the guitar...

On the guitar you can play the melody like this:

5 5 5 3 7
2 3 0 3 0
2 4 0 0 0

But on the keyboard it sounds very different, this is the typical piano lick. Try to play the melody with harmony ( AC# - BD - GB - etc... ) while playing the A pedal. Or play with the pedal A bass.

SO! I said many words, but with little info for keyboard players. The main thing is the melody!

Top melody is:
A---- A---- A!------- G-- B-- A---- B---- G-- ------
Bottom melody is:
A---- B---- G-------- G-- G!- A---- B---- G--------

Play both at the same time, add chords with pedal bass and yo'll get the result.
« Last Edit: August 30, 2013, 07:55:14 PM by foma »

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Re: Solid Rock Keyboard intro
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2013, 11:51:18 PM »
I was going to post a similar reply, but Foma was faster  :clap :)

I have the alchemy sheet music, but this intro doesn't feature on the score which begins on the A riff

on he OES tour, Alan played few notes with a calypso sound, but it was exaclty the same top line, with a faster tempo and a slightly different rhythm


 

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