![]() ![]() The song is clearly in D major not D minor, and yet the C, G, and F chords are predominant, with the only other chord besides D major that is from the major harmonized scale being Em and only takes up 2 beats. Now, over 100 years later, our ears have no problem with the amalgamation.Ī good example of this is in the traditional song “I Know You Rider” which goes: In places like New Orleans in the early 1900’s, these two distinct influences melded together. How can we just blindly mix the two like this? In short, it’s because our Western music has derived from both European classical music and the songs that came from Africa via the slave trade in the United States from which styles such as blues and gospel derived. ![]() The bluesy quality comes in bars 5 and 6 where the G and C chords are taken directly from the minor scale. Suppose we were to take a few chords from the major and then mix in a few ‘bluesy’ or ‘darker’ sounding chords from the minor. ![]()
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