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Thread #77155 Message #1373424
Posted By: Amos
06-Jan-05 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: Chords to 'All My Trials'
Subject: RE: Chords to 'All My Trials'
Here's what it is -- the Bb is the flatted 7th chord, in C, and the Gm is its relative minor. When you play one way against the othe,r it seems to me, the Bb provides a morte distinct dissonance in that strange way that flatted 7th chords have, that then cleanly resolves in the next line. If you use the relative minor (Gm, in C) the dissonnance is sweeter and its resolution less clear and clean-edged, if that makes sense. So I am in favor of the plain Bb.
An example of the same dissonance and how it resolves is the bouncing between G and F in playing "Shady Grove" in the key of G. IN this case it is the F that is the flatted seventh of the G scale.
But I think in the final analysis it is a matter of opinion and chacum a son mauvais gout!!
Regards,
A