The Mellotron Group

Hi All
Once I know what the chords are for a song, and that can be tricky enough to find out, it's often a long process of trial and error with the inversions until it sounds remotely like the original.
All part of the fun though   
Paul  




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> Chord construction...it sounds good for a non-musician like me...could you please ellaborate?
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying Day.
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> My daughters piano teacher recently gave me a "refresher" course on chord construction- very interesting really, think I wrote like 15 songs right after!!
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> Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying Day.
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> Bernie I think it's holding down more than one key at a time.
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> > Thanks. This is a bit embarrassing, I am not certain of the chords as it was a live improvisation. I think it started in e minor and it's mainly a mixture of descending 5ths and 4ths, it wanders around in F for a bit then ends in C. The sound is a mixture
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> > Very sweet. The opening chord and sound reminds me of In the wake of Poseidon...what are they?
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> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
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