Wednesday, April 25, 2018

COTD #7: E-9

Even less time today. This one is from one of the saddest songs I know: Center Aisle by Caedmon' Call. I believe it's also used in The Wrong Man Was Convicted by the Barenaked Ladies*. Both are worth a listen. Note that Center Aisle is capo III. Not sure about The Wrong Man Was Convicted.

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The beauty lies in the tension between the 9th (F#) on the 4th string and the minor 3rd on the open 3rd string.


*Honorable mention goes to another Christian song: Love Song by Third Day. The first chord is an E-(9), the parentheses indicating the absence of a 7th. That chord is also a sixth-inversion GΔ13! The honorableness of the mention is because I no longer consider this song generally "worth a listen," though it certainly is if you're an evangelical Christian, or a particularly emotive individual with nothing against Christianity.

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