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09/11/2006 12:12 am
On the Blues You Can Use forum I found this:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_on.shtml
In particular, trying to learn some tricks for theory and songwriting, I started reading the 1st note on "We Can Work It Out" and I found:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/wcwio.shtml
"The verses are indeed sixteen measures long but are divided into three phrases in a 6+6+4 AAB pattern. This lends them a bit of a free-verse quality in spite of the underlying steady 4/4 rhythm."
------------------------ 2X --------------------------
|D |- 9 -» 8|- |- 9 |C 3 -» 2|D |
D: I flat-VII I
|G 9 -» 8|D |G 9 -» 8|A |
IV I IV V
[Figure 1.1]
What does this figure mean? I get the bars, and the chords, what is 9->>8?
Thanks!
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09/11/2006 12:42 am
Actually, I asked some people, and they pointed out that it's explained in the text immediately following the figure:
The melodic leaning tones add several harmonic dissonances I've notated above. The most interesting one is the way the appoggiatura ninth (E) in measure 4 is not allowed to resolve until the next measure where its resolution note (D) has now become a dissonance over the new chord change.
Since E is the 9th of D, 9->>8 just means 9 resolving to 8 (or 2 to 1).
09/11/2006 12:43 am
The numbers such as 9>>>8 are referring to the melody notes written as chord notes & added notes (D & E) above the chords, although it's a bit inconsistent dropping an octave over the C chord, when there's no need, as far as I can see.
Edit - Ah, I see you've answered your own question :D
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09/11/2006 12:53 am
Yeah, I had to ask a friend who knows some music theory, since I wanted to keep reading the article.
But thanks for replying... is there a good book where this kind of stuff is summarized? I have the Skeptical Guitarist series vol.1 and vol.2 but it doesn't quite talk about songs in this way. There's just so much I don't know..
09/11/2006 1:03 am
Maybe NoteBoat's book is what you're looking for. It's especially useful for forum members as not many books come with the author included as part of the deal. :lol:
09/11/2006 2:02 am
Sorry, my book doesn't deal with that - it's an explanation of traditional theory (which doesn't really cover much of what the Beatles did)
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