Hi! I’m Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com.
We’re going to talk about intermediate theory
concepts. In the key the song really is in
is really in the key of G. In the key of G,
guess what’s the 1 chord. It’s a G, the
key of G, G. The 5 chord is the fifth note
in the scale. G, A, B, C, D. That’s the
fifth note. We build major chords on the fifth
note, so that’s going to be a D chord. What
do you think the 2 chord in the key of G would
be? GA. It’s an A and it’s a minor chord.
Our 2 chords are minor chords. 5 chords are
a D, we know. 1 chord is already a G, we know.
Now, what is the purpose of this? I want to
play this song; I want to understand this
song as it really occurs. It’s not really
in a certain key, but if I chose to play it
in the key G it would sound like this. The
G, D, A minor, D, G. So here I go, I’m going
to play it like that. Here’s my G chord,
I go…It’s another…that’s a G chord…it’s
another tequila sunrise…that’s the D chord
right, that’s the D chord…starring slowly
cross the….and now I need a 2 chord, which
is A minor….sky…I need my D chord again…said
goodbye.
