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Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:08 pm

Hey, can someone tell me what the chord changes are in this song before the first verse which begins with 'welcome to the end of days'?

http://www.freewebs.com/countfuzzball/0 ... _World.mp3

I think that they switch between a chord with C in it and then a chord with D.

Followed by a chord with D and then a chord with C alternating.

But for the life of me, I cannot seem to get the entire chord of the acoustic guitar.

Lovely bass guitar work though!

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:50 pm

Sounds like Dm and C6,9.

Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:38 pm

Sorry, but are you saying it's

Dm followed by C6

and then when it changes it's Dm followed by C9?

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:41 pm

No, C6,9 is one chord (c,e,g,a,d) except I think it is voiced with the C in the bass and the chord as g,a,d,e. So it alternates between Dm (actually Dm7) and C6,9.

Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:04 am

wait, sorry, are you talking about the guitar chord changes, like directly before the first verse, or the entire 35 or so seconds before the first verse, I.E from the start of the song?

Thanks.

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:29 am

It is so difficult to use words to describe music. Zappa said using words to describe music is like dancing to describe architecture.

From the beginning of the song listen to the rhythm. The Dm7 plays for 3 beats and the C69 is on the 4th beat. This plays through the part where he sings "if death is sweet, why do you die with your eyes open." It plays this way for two more measures and then it changes to Dm for 2 beats and C69 for 2 beats (you can hear the bottom note of the guitar going D on the first beat and C for third beat). It plays this for four measure and through him singing "welcome to the end of days)

It then goes to Bb (You were not the...), F (...same man that you...), Ab (...were just a moment...), Eb (..ago, no you burn like a...), Bb (...fiiii..), C(...iiire). It then returns to the original pattern for two measures and then goes to E (The moment holds you by the hand it goes on for...), F (..ever. The whole world...) E (...there in a grain of sand its now or nev...) F (...er..) etc.

Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:41 am

oh yeah, thanks a million! I had the 'you were not the same man' to 'it's now or never' part figured out by ear, but I just wasn't at all able to get that Dm/C6,9 part down in between those parts of the verse.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Also: Zappa rocks!

but just to say, I think you described it pretty well, just a question of timing...

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:49 am

Just to make things interesting you might try a relative minor Am7,11 chord substitution instead of the C6,9. Since I do not play guitar it might be fun to play with the voicing since with a twelve string everything sounds so full. In any case the movement of the beginning chords is strongly influenced by the note pattern of A-C, D-C-D, E.

Count_fuzzball · Post by **Count_fuzzball** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:36 pm

You don't play guitar, but yet you can say 'that's Dm7 and that's C6,9', how can you do that?

I only managed to figure out the chords for the other parts of the song merely because they weren't strummed quite fast.

Bobbotov · Post by **Bobbotov** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:49 pm

Because I heard the notes and extrapolated the chord from that. The other chords were easy because the pattern was in descending 4ths (i.e. Bb-F, Ab-Eb-Bb).

Chords for Strange New World