Comments on: How To Use A Minor Chord… When The Ear Expects Major https://tonyconniff.com/how-to-use-a-minor-chord-when-the-ear-expects-major/ Songwriter, Producer, and Coach, based in New York City. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TonyConniff https://tonyconniff.com/how-to-use-a-minor-chord-when-the-ear-expects-major/#comment-19400 Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:00:50 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2996#comment-19400 In reply to Peter Leslie.

Thanks for the incisive comments, Peter.
I just wish my Choruses would ‘write themselves’!
Best wishes,
Tony

]]> By: Peter Leslie https://tonyconniff.com/how-to-use-a-minor-chord-when-the-ear-expects-major/#comment-18613 Sun, 07 May 2023 02:27:01 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2996#comment-18613 Thanks for the observations Tony, you always get me thinking!
‘You Know I’m No Good’ is a clever piece of writing, in that AW seems to have wanted a similarity of feel between verse and chorus and so used the same m-m-M-m with the same starting Dm but wanting some variation, which would explain the Am. Also, in the prechorus, to my ears the EM does the heavy lifting in creating the tension whereas the F acts as a sweeetener before the second tension of E again, then going to the A which acts both as resolution of the E and a signpost that we’re about to go somewhere new. In that context, going to the chorus Dm was totally natural and the Am, whilst an oddity in the context of the song up to the chorus, sounds totally right given what she was trying to do in linking chorus and verse whilst still mixing it up. And bringing the E in as a more natural mid-chorus tension is just icing on the cake. I figure that if she wrote the verse and prechorus first then the chorus would almost have written itself. Or she wrote verse and chorus first, then came up with that peculiar and inspired prechorus as a fine glue. That feels more likely to me.
Nice one AW, that’s some smart and elegant writing. RIP.

]]> By: Tony Conniff https://tonyconniff.com/how-to-use-a-minor-chord-when-the-ear-expects-major/#comment-7128 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:12:39 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2996#comment-7128 In reply to Joyce Rogers.

Thank you, Joyce!

]]> By: Joyce Rogers https://tonyconniff.com/how-to-use-a-minor-chord-when-the-ear-expects-major/#comment-7127 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:42:25 +0000 http://tonyconniff.com/?p=2996#comment-7127 There seems to be a more jazz feel to the songs (esp Winehouse-rip); love your blogs. Thanks.

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