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Old 08-30-2021, 08:30 PM
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Default Help with Rainy days and Mondays?

I hate piano players. just kidding.

I've been away from the guitar for months but I'm a fairly good picker though light on theory.

Just looking to get turned in the right direction here.
It starts at 2:05. The piano interlude after 'feelin old' sounds like an Em7 to A7. Or some kind of suspended being resolved?

Very appreciative of any contribution here!

https://youtu.be/E_91GYkVl3k
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Old 08-31-2021, 02:16 AM
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I hate piano players. just kidding.

I've been away from the guitar for months but I'm a fairly good picker though light on theory.

Just looking to get turned in the right direction here.
It starts at 2:05. The piano interlude after 'feelin old' sounds like an Em7 to A7. Or some kind of suspended being resolved?

Very appreciative of any contribution here!

https://youtu.be/E_91GYkVl3k
I'm pretty sure it's the same as the opening sequence. Amaj7 to E9sus4. I think what you're hearing is the different voicings of the E9sus4. I think it's basically just the notes E-B-D to start with then he adds F# and A.
You hear it much more clearly before he starts singing - before that idiot in the audience whoops (man, I hate it when people do that!)
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Old 08-31-2021, 05:16 PM
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Awesome, I'll give that a go - thanks!
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Old 08-31-2021, 06:07 PM
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Whoooooa . . .blast from the past! I used to play this in my solo show back in 1971! IIRC what I used to play after the F# under the lyrics “sometimes I’d like to quit, nothing ever seems to fit” - if that’s the part you mean - I played Bm7 to C#m7 for each phrase. That seemed to work at the time.

Edit: it might have been Bm7 - C#m7 - Dmaj7 - C#m7. I think I changed my arrangement at some point. Try them both.
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Old 08-31-2021, 09:55 PM
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Maybe this will help ... from a 1970's Carpenters songbook.

Cheers!
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Old 09-04-2021, 01:45 PM
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Thanks all! Had some time to fiddle with it today. Hoping to play it with a capo at 4th. I see that E9sus4 is very convenient at the 7th
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Old 09-07-2021, 10:35 AM
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... - before that idiot in the audience whoops (man, I hate it when people do that!)
Yep... The instant that woman whooped out, as if she were the only person in the room, I just turned the video off. I dislike it, too.

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Old 09-07-2021, 01:24 PM
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- before that idiot in the audience whoops (man, I hate it when people do that!)
Me too . . . unless they’re doing it for me.
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