Um. No. Never heard ANYBODY not play it E minor on "Louie Louie." But I NEVER hear anybody play the E minor on Gloria." I think it's because the E minor on Gloria is easier to miss so everybody ASSUMES it isn't there. My point is that guys just don't LISTEN to music sometimes. They ASSUME they know it all. Have you TRIED playing Gloria the right way now that I told you to listen for it? It gives Gloria a whole slightly interesting twist to its modality. Simple Rock ain't so simple sometimes...
I host karaoke sometimes and I have a version that has the E minor chord in it! However, it's missing the distinctive guitar riff at the end of the song. I had to edit it in. Here's a link to a sample of the karaoke version that has the E minor chord: Gloria
You tried playing "Gloria?" E-Em-D-A? One a two-ah, three a four-a? One a =E major Two-ah=E minor Three a=D major Four-a=A major Listen CLOSELY and you will hear the guitar changing from major to minor.
Yes it is a minor. And no. The minor gets two beats then goes to D, not back to E major. And last time I checked E minor was a chord, not a lick. Are we having fun yet?
Yep, very clear to me, yet I am 100% sure my band didn't do the E minor chord when we used to play that song back in the 90s. I was the rhythm guitarist after all. I'm glad you brought it to my attention though! It reminds me of how amazed when I found out the actual guitar chord progression on the verses of The Beatles' "Good Morning Good Morning". I used to think it was: A major - E minor - G major - A major throughout the verses, but it's actually A minor - E minor - G major - A major, then F# minor - E minor - G major - A major! I am pretty sure I would've figured out the actual chords if I had listened closely to it, but I was going by the official sheet music, which is incorrect!
Well, all licks are parts of chords, if not made of whole chords. A guitarist could go for a chord but play a partial figure that was related to it. What is it then? The note that identifies the minor is sometimes a vamp on the E chord. Route 66 does that too. The first seconds of the song are 3 chords to my ears. The chords are played with open strings making a rhythm between chords. To me what you are hearing is the "arrangement" of the rhythm guitarist, which no one who covered it heard as a fourth chord. I take it that you are the only cite on the internet about this? Have fun.
This is a nice find, but I'm going to say that the sheet music is not the most reliable cite for a rock tune, for me anyway. Play it on the guitar and see if it feels or sounds right. Now play it lifting up your hand completely instead of making an Em chord, making some rhythm happen. You wlll hear that G note which distinguishes an E minor chord from a major, but the note goes back to A flat before the D chord. That's why I hear it a s a lick. The song works on guitar by a rhythmic open concert tuned strum and not a chord.
I don't doubt it, but whatever instruments are playing that minor 3rd are so low in the mix that I really can't tell. By any chance, is that the chord progression for this one as well?
Actor Rufus Sewell's father, Bill, was the animator responsible for the 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' sequence in Yellow Submarine.
I remember writing a letter to a friend about a Ryan Adams album I liked and saying, “...not to be confused with any schlock-writing Canadian goofballs we might know of.”
It's also my understanding he also ate Ice Cream every day. He wrote Ben & Jerry and asked them to make a Pops' Swingin' Pistachio flavor. I'm just goofing (it's a Brooklyn expression goofing is) about the Ben & Jerry's; but Louis was an ice cream fiend and he did eat it every day. I believe vanilla was his flavor of choice. The 40 years of daily weed & ice cream consumption alone would have made him a legend in my eyes. His unparalleled musicianship and personality was just the cherry on the Pops' Swingin' Pastachio sundae.
That right up until a couple months before it's release, Fleetwood Mac had planned on calling "Rumours" "Yesterday's Gone!"
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