[mcp6453[_2_]]

Maybe the musically inclined here can help me with this question. As background, I'm a terribly amateur musician, music
theory is a mystery to me, I absolutely can't sing, and the only way I can properly tune a guitar is with a tuner.
Yesterday for no reason, while playing a chord on my guitar that sounds a lot like "the chord" in the Beatles' "A Hard
Day's Night", I moved it up to the seventh or ninth fret. (I don't remember which.) As soon as I struck the chord, I
immediately recognized it as the same as or similar to the opening chord in "Venus", but Shocking Blue. I then loaded
"Venus" on my computer and hit play. Not only does the chord sound right to me, but it was in the exact key.

If I played it in a different key, it doesn't sound like the song. How does that happen?

[Les Cargill[_4_]]

mcp6453 wrote:
Maybe the musically inclined here can help me with this question. As background, I'm a terribly amateur musician, music
theory is a mystery to me, I absolutely can't sing, and the only way I can properly tune a guitar is with a tuner.
Yesterday for no reason, while playing a chord on my guitar that sounds a lot like "the chord" in the Beatles' "A Hard
Day's Night", I moved it up to the seventh or ninth fret. (I don't remember which.) As soon as I struck the chord, I
immediately recognized it as the same as or similar to the opening chord in "Venus", but Shocking Blue. I then loaded
"Venus" on my computer and hit play. Not only does the chord sound right to me, but it was in the exact key.

If I played it in a different key, it doesn't sound like the song. How does that happen?


Not too many songs start with a sus4 chord.

You just remember it. It's a big part of that song and it's a huge hook.
Nobody remembers that song, but everybody remembers
that chord. That's just how hooks and earworms work.

Pitch is part of your lingustic mechanism. Most languages on the
world use pitch as part of meaning/semantics. English just uses it much
less so.

My kids listen to nearly-hookless stuff and I can barely
remember it.

--
Les Cargill

[geoff]

On 10/05/2016 2:32 p.m., Les Cargill wrote:

less so.

My kids listen to nearly-hookless stuff and I can barely
remember it.


And presumably nobody will after a year (or less).

geoff