![]() The song’s written in the key of B minor but not conventionally. It dances around quite a bit as the song progresses. You’ll hear chords such as F#m, which comes from B harmonic minor, and E from B Dorian. But since the verses are in B natural minor, you could say it is centered around that key. When it comes to fortifying your barre chords skill, B minor is the most ideal. The use of minor-key, together with its cryptic lyrics and the killer solos, make “Hotel California” an enigmatic rock classic that’s been winning hearts for over four decades!īut if you are not yet comfortable with barre chords, take the chords a whole step down to A minor and slap a capo on the second fret to play it along with the original. It didn’t take this Rolling Stones’ acoustic-driven breakup ballad very long to conquer the charts. Released in 1973, “Angie” swiftly grabbed the top spot on the US Billboard Hot 100 as well as several charts across the globe.Īlthough credited to both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this song was almost entirely composed by Richards at a Swiss Rehab facility after regaining strength in his fingers enough to start strumming again. He built it around the key of A minor, a perfect scale to craft a song that was intended to be calmer and tender than Stones’ high decibel style. In the most simplified form, you’ll only need to strum few simple chords- Am, E, G, F, and C to play the song. But those who are keen on reproducing a more accurate rendition- it’ll take a fair bit of work in getting the timing, strumming, and picking patterns right to emulate “Angie’s” fine melody lines, trilling riffs, and that iconic intro acoustic solo.I have only comparatively recently emerged from the United States army so that I am now of course in the radio-active reserve and, the usual jokes about the army aside, one of the many fine things one has to admit is the way that the army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion in the sense that not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, and color, but also on the grounds of ability. Be that as it may some of you may recall the publicity a few years ago about the army's search for an official army song to be the counterpart of the navy's Anchors Away and the airforce's Up In The Air Junior Birdman songs. I was in basic training at the time and I recall our platoon sergeant, who was an unfrocked marine.Īctually, the change of service had come as quite >a blow to him because it meant that he had to memorize a new serial number which took up most of his time. Well, I submitted the following song which is called It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier which, I think, demonstrates the proper spirit you'll agree.Īt any rate I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time. However, the fact that it did not win the contest, I can ascribe only to blatant favoratism on the part of the judges.
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