WWAW Recognizing Chords?

[gassers]

I can guess major and minor chords but songs with maj9 or suspended2 or dim4, that kind of weird chords is beyond me.

 

[Brenton Torrent]

All sorts of weird chord progressions going on in Steely Dan songs. I guess it's a jazz thing when you add sevenths and the like to standard chords. I don't have the music education to really explain what's happening with the right terminology. Maybe a brotherman could enlighten me...

 

[gassers]

I don't have the music education to really explain what's happening with the right terminology. Maybe a brotherman could enlighten me...

same tbh, the toughest artist i found with weird chords in pop music was Michael Jackson. Whoever produced/wrote his songs, were geniuses.

i don't even try with jazz or rock music.

 

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

It takes like 4 weeks of basic theory to train your ear

 

[gassers]

It takes like 4 weeks of basic theory to train your ear

it took me years wtf.

 

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

it took me years wtf.

Are you learning while playing an instrument, or just doing it as an exercise

 

[Udders]

Pearl Jam, especially early stuff as some of the weirdest chords and fingerings of any music I've heard/read.

 

[gassers]

Are you learning while playing an instrument

yes, the bulk of it i learned back in HS while playing guitar. My ear has definitively become sharper since then but nowhere close to prof music producers.

 

[Gimli Son Of Gloin]

yes, the bulk of it i learned back in HS while playing guitar. My ear has definitively become sharper since then but nowhere close to prof music producers.

When I said like 4 week, that's hard studying, sitting down and spending hours a day playing back chords and memorizing them

 

[turdcutter]

All sorts of weird chord progressions going on in Steely Dan songs. I guess it's a jazz thing when you add sevenths and the like to standard chords. I don't have the music education to really explain what's happening with the right terminology. Maybe a brotherman could enlighten me...

Seventh means seven whole notes up from the root note. So if you're playing an E chord, you'd toss in a D note to make it a seventh. It makes a gay jazzy sound. That Steely Dan song has a lot of polychords too (combos of two chords). You probably knew this pretty much but I wanted to mansplain like a fag.

 

[AntSucks]

Rick Beato taught his kids from birth and now they're pretty good.

 

[Imager]

WWAWD Time Signatures? If I hear weird switching in a song I try to figure it out. Most people I feel are completely unaware.