I got a comment from a reader that they thought it must really be in the key of E, I think its probably Eb but hot this song got here is a tale in itself. Wayne, our original guitar player/ singer found it and thought everyone would love the song. Everybody does love the song, it's a great song. So we added it to the song list in the key of D, if I remember correctly. He was in the process of leaving the band, and I was reorganizing the playlist. I had just recruited Nancy and her friend Carolyn to join the band. They came to rehearsal and working to learn all the songs we had on the playlist. We discovered that they did not know what key they were in. They would find a song they wanted to play and then capo it around to match their voices. So when we started to add a few songs they wanted to do we had to work through and figure out what key they were in so that the other instruments could play with them. Carolyn ended up not playing with us. Nancy said she wanted to do this one and so she capoed it to her singing voice and we spend a good amount of time one evening figuring out what the actual notes were that she was playing. Ben, our wise musical adviser can hear them and tell you what they are. (By the way, those are banjo chords above, but the E isn't correct, its the same formation as the Eb, just down one. My problem is I'm still working on these two four finger formations. The banjo players generally refer to them as the D & F formations because that's what they are at the top of the neck. These form chords all the way down.
None of us really sight read music- well, maybe Oleeta does. Ben was classically trained, but he doesn't use sheet music- he just hears it.
1 comment:
Dan, okay, I think there is some confusion caused by the capo.
Without getting into too much music theory, C#m is the relative minor of E, so if you're playing an Eb chord, the relative minor is Cm, etc.
Given the chord progression you've shown in your chart, all the Eb's should be E naturals. Also, a few other things could be changed to make the progression closer to the way it's composed:
In the line where it says "the major lift," there is no chord change over "lift," stay on the A chord. In the line "the baffled king composing hallelujah," there is a B chord over "baffled," and there is a G#7 over the second syllable of "composing." And on the final "hallelujah" in the 7th line, the chords should be E B E.
Play along with the KD Lang Youtube video I linked and see if these chords don't fit a bit better (-:
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