At 04:08 PM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> >The first time I heard their version was on the televised portion of the
>> >Opry a few years ago; that flat 7 chord jumped right out at me.
>>
>> Uh... as a non-musician who doesn't even aspire to play three chord Lou
>> Reed songs, what the hell are you talking about?
>
>Hah, am I glad you asked, because it's not a flat 7, it's a flat 6 (so much
>for this "non-musician" pose). The first two lines of the verse go 4 chord
>to 1 chord, but at the start of the third line, it goes to a flat 6 chord -
>C in the key of E - and that's not something you find a lot of in bluegrass,
>or in country music in general (there's a flat 6 in the second part of
>"Snowflake Reel"/"Snowflake Breakdown," but after that it gets hard to
>recall any right now).
>
>If you recall the chord pattern for "All Along The Watchtower," the chord
>that the pattern goes down to is the flat 6 (1minor, flat 7, flat 6, flat
>7,1minor, repeat ad infinitum); another example of it is in "I've Been
>Loving You Too Long," where it's used in the vamp (a passage that you play
>over and over, like a loop). Maybe that will give you the idea of the
>sound.
>
Can you create flash cards for me? Uh... I'm sorry I asked the original
question.
Jeff
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