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Larry Ogintz's avatar

I have to say this is one of the best explanations of chord progressions I've ever come across. I spent years of guitar playing without realizing exactly how they worked.

As an aside, I always thought of Sweet Home Alabama as being in G, yet the solos have many notes outside of both G and D!

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Ethan Hein's avatar

Thank you! I hear Sweet Home Alabama as being in D but apparently Lynyrd Skynyrd ends it on G in their shows. Either way, the solos are mostly blues, which doesn't exist within the Western European major-minor key system at all.

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Song Spotlight's avatar

I hear it as in D because of the melody and metric placement of chords

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Ethan Hein's avatar

Same

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