I've heard versions of this that go G-Ab-A-Bb-B (Sitting in the morning sun) C-C-B-Bb-A (I'll be sitting when the evening comes), etc...
Putting a major chord on every chromatic tone between the main chords.
This reminds me of Alice In Chains, for example, "Them Bones"
C#5-D5-Eb5-E5
Not functional harmony in the Western Classical sense, but rather using each note of a chromatic riff as the root for a chord
Interesting that both "Them Bones" and "Dock of the Bay" have a section that is more traditionally tonal ("Looks like nothing's...." in Dock of the Bay and "I feel so alone..." in Them Bones)
I've heard versions of this that go G-Ab-A-Bb-B (Sitting in the morning sun) C-C-B-Bb-A (I'll be sitting when the evening comes), etc...
Putting a major chord on every chromatic tone between the main chords.
This reminds me of Alice In Chains, for example, "Them Bones"
C#5-D5-Eb5-E5
Not functional harmony in the Western Classical sense, but rather using each note of a chromatic riff as the root for a chord
Interesting that both "Them Bones" and "Dock of the Bay" have a section that is more traditionally tonal ("Looks like nothing's...." in Dock of the Bay and "I feel so alone..." in Them Bones)
It would be more similar if Bruno Mars was on A major, but he's on Am, which is within the key of C.
Though Bruno Mars does do a lot of bluesy melodic phrasing, very much in the same stylistic idiom as Otis.
Yes I think that is what is hard for me.