Song 3

Funky Fusion Blues

key of G   © 2006Five Feathers Music (BMI)

 Intro:

|   G   |   G  |   G   |  G  |

Verse:

|   G   |  G   |  G   |   G  |

|  C    |   C   |  G   |   G  |

|  D    |  C    |  G   |   G  |

Repeat a Verse, then…

Chorus:

|   C  |   C   |   C  |  C  |

|  G   |   G  |   G  |  G  |

|  C   |   C   |  C   |  D  |

Verse, Verse, Chorus

Verse, Verse, Chorus, then…

Last Chorus:

|  C   |  C  |  C   |  C  |

|  G   |  G  |  G  |  G  |

|  C   |  C  |  C   |  D  |

| G  F   G  |

This is a subtle funky groove that just sort of keeps on percolating along.  The verses are more or less your standard three chord pattern, and the chorus goes to a new pattern beginning with the “4” chord for a change of pace, in this case the “4” chord is “C”. 

In the off chance that some may not be familiar with this “numbering” of chord patterns, in studio musician lingo for the sake of simplicity, the eight notes of a standard scale are simply numbered “1” through “8”, and “8” is the same note as “1” but an octave higher.  Most of us learned the simple sing-song way of remembering a simple major scale as “do re me fa so la ti do” which is exactly how to think of “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8”.

If I wanted to make a quick note of the chord pattern of, say, “C , Am, F and G”, I would simply say “This is a 1, 6minor, 4, 5 in the key of C.”  Often in studio situations, you are given a “demo” of the songwriter’s version of the song, and you are expected to make some sort of chart for yourself to follow.  If you write out all the actual chords, like our C Am F G, and the artist of the day comes in and needs the song played in the key of E to fit their vocal range, you’d have to either write a new chart for “E, C#minor, A and B” or transpose it in your head.  My head doesn’t do that so well!  But with the numbers, I simply change the key, so it’s a “1, 6minor, 4, 5 in the key of E”.