The big ringing chords he used in the Who were so musically smart when you consider how busy the drumming and bass playing were in that band – it could have gotten chaotic if not for him. He more or less invented the power chord, and you can hear a sort of pre-Zeppelin thing in ...
First, figure out the notes in the G Major Scale. For instructions on how to do this, check outthis lesson here. The notes in the G Major Scale are: G A B C D E F# G. Next, we simply match up the notes in the scale to the chord formula above. So the chords used in the k...
I remember you were playing with those chords for a long time. At the time we were writing the demos for the album and I think I was staying at either at your house or Martin’s house [Martin Jackson – drummer and part of the original trio] or sleeping on someone’s floor, so I ...
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Breakout – Swing Out Sister
and to attend to places of pain holding in my back body. I can attach many of them to chords of my childhood, or of my recent ancestors’ experiences. I can attach other pains to whether or not I eat cheese. I filter a good deal of the question “how are you doing?” through the...
Next up is this vibrant, playful, exploration of 9/8 polymeters from Toronto-based producerKatret. This embodies for me the inclination to jump two feet first into a puddle in the middle of a summer rainstorm; irrepressible exuberance in defiance of one’s surroundings.This is unfortunately no...
I suck. I couldn't remember which chords comprised the song I wanted to play. This used to be a tune that was "good". ("Good" equates to any song I can actually play. "Horrible Tunes" are generally played by Lindsay Buckingham, Eric Clapton, and Warren Zevon.) After scratching throu...
British singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya hunkered down with creative partner Wilma Archer to make sonic sense of this transitory period in her life. The follow-up toPAINLESS, one of ourtop albums of 2022, blends acoustic grooves and fuzzed-out power chords that give voice to the anxieties of...