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ADE and B7
Hello Ladies,
Here is a bit of a Techy question.
Paul McCartney said once in an interview that in the early stages of the Beatles, Buddy Holly was a big influence. “Buddy was playing three cords A D and E and we wanted to play songs like that. We were also learning B7.”
My question is how much of that same style do you all use in your song writing? Do you all write some or all or your songs using those 3 cords for the foundation? Have you written any songs using strictly those cords? Could you give examples of those songs if possible?
Thanks Ladies for your answers and amazing Talent.
Christmas is a wonderful collection of beautiful, fun filled songs. All I Want Christmas To Be will be a classic that everyone will talk about for years!
All the very best to your amazing team.
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Hi Rick,
We usually don’t think of songwriting and chord progressions in “chord shape” terms. Being able to use a capo or transposing songs (like we often do) it’s really not about the specific chords you use but rather the sequence. When Paul talks about A D and E, he means using the I, IV and V progression if you look at it on a key chart . It’s the most basic blues chord progression that a lot of songs are built upon. For example, our song “Won’t You Listen Know” is in the key of A, so you could play along to the verses using these chords.Paul learning the “B7” chord would have allowed him to play blues and rock n’ roll songs in the key of E, of which B7 (or a regular B) would be the “V” position. In this case E, A and B (or B7) being the I, IV and V progression. So he could now play along to blues and rock songs in two different keys, A and E, both of which are commonly used 🙂
I hope that made some sense!I guess what I’m trying to say is that they had a completely different approach to starting learning the guitar back then, as they couldn’t just google a list of all the possible chord shapes and basic music theory. They were “hunting” chord shapes, which now makes for an awesome story 🙂
Unlocking the mysteries and possibilities of the guitar bit by bit, teaching themselves and most importantly learning by listening to all these great old records. A very different approach to how most people start learning guitar these days.
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Hi Lisa,
Wow! Thanks for your answer, and I actually made some sense of your wonderful answer after reading it a few times. You both have Technology on your side where the Beatles and groups like them did not. Won’t You Listen Now is one of my most favorite MLT original Songs. (They all are quite good) guess I should have said that I relate to it more than most of the others.
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my question. ?
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Without any formal music training, its mindblowing how inspired their music creation was. Speaking of an awesome story, I found this video that Tomas shared really helped me to appreciate the Beatles brilliance if you haven’t seen it already.
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