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Old May 28th, 2007
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Hi, Rut ... what Fretsource says.

Also, I had a quick listen to Tommy's version on YouTube ... he's throwing in some nice diminished chords amongst it all, but he's also doing some simpler things. For example, between the E and A at one stage he adds a G# bass note to the E, which is just a new inversion of the E chord; he then plays a E9 ... why? because E7 leads nicely to the A, but the melody note is a 9 ... An E chord with a flat 7 and a 9 equals E9th. So you can see that by adding the melody notes to the underlying chords, new chords are formed that sound tricky, but are really just the sum total of what's going on at that moment in the tune.


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