A music professor breaks down the theory behind Roy Ayers' Everybody Loves the Sunshine
In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...
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A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song
The C7 chord is yet another departure from Ab major; it’s the V7 chord in the ... The main event here is the leading tone A resolving to the tonic B-flat. This is an especially epic thing ...