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Old 10-28-2017, 01:11 PM
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I've been all over the internet in a vain attempt to find the chord progression or at least the lyrics for the Alan Whitney song "Weakness", performed wonderfully
by him and covered beautifully by Claudia Russell.
It's the first time I've been unable to find anything about a song other than
the YouTube performances. Any help out there?
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Old 10-28-2017, 07:21 PM
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Can you link to the YouTube version of the song? I couldn’t even find that.
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Old 10-29-2017, 06:46 AM
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Not 100% sure about the key, but sounds like G G/B C G G7 D G over and over.
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Old 10-29-2017, 06:55 AM
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It's in D. D G D A D Bm D D7 A Detc.
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Old 10-29-2017, 08:21 AM
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The version I found is in E.

E, A B7 repeat until

E, E7 A, Am, E, B7, E

Back to top

Chorus:

B7, C#m, E, A, Am, E, B7

And to top I think but I stopped there.

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Old 10-29-2017, 09:08 AM
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This version :



Is in D and sounds like this to me :


verse:

I - I -IV- IV - I - V

I - I7 - IV - IVmin - I - V- I


Bridge:

V - IIIm - I

I - I - IV - IVmin - I - V
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Old 10-29-2017, 09:42 AM
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Thanks all
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Old 10-29-2017, 10:32 AM
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I zeroed in on the Claudia Russell live version FWIW. And I chorded without a guitar in hand. I think the key variables are the switch from I to dom I7 and the IV to -iv. Those are probably the ear twisters. Otherwise straight diatonic in the key of choice.

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