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You confusion is coming from mixing "common practice" harmony theory with pop music.
Both of the songs you linked are in the key of D. We know this because the D chord and melody notes clearly have tonic function, meaning they are used as a harmonic "home base", and the other chords played are designed to create a tension that resolves to D.
If this was a ...
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The number one thing you should worry about is developing your ear.
That's probably 70% - 80% of a professional musician.
So...
Transcribe songs you like (and some you don't) and practice them, especially the parts that give you a hard time.
Use a metronome for songs that are too fast. Play them slow and gradually increase speed.
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Your best option here is to listen to, and learn to play, a large number of blues songs - not just the ones you know have a deep emotional impact, but as wide a range as possible to get the feel for blues inside you.
The whole point about emotionally charged blues music is that it to be convincing, you have to feel the music. There are a range of people on ...
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The term "Rhythm and Blues" or "R&B" was coined by Jerry Wexler (who went on to be a famous record company executive and producer) when he was working as a journalist at Billboard Magazine, circa 1952. (Wikipedia link). Billboard published a weekly chart displaying their estimates of the relative position of retail sales of single recordings which were ...
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My top three, though very general, are important in order to maximize your efforts. Afterall, you're not committing all this time and effort not to improve as a musician, right?
Develop proper playing technique and dilligently avoiding bad or sloppy habits
When learning a new piece of music, thoroughly work through challenging sections, first slowly for ...
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Can one make an objective, quantifiable distinction between
Rock-n-roll and Rhythm-n-Blues?
Short answer: No.
Long Answer:
Alan Freed's use of the term rock-n-roll in the 1950s is often considered definitive. He used the term to refer to R&B combos, black vocal groups, saxophonists, black blues singers, and white artists playing in the authentic ...
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The extra major chords that are not part of the scale are called chromatically-altered chords. Particularly, these are chromatic mediants (probably the most common kind of chromatically-altered chord). The mediants of the scale are a third up or down from the tonic, so it's iii's and vi's that are most prone to this treatment. VII can also be considered a ...
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I would probably help a great deal to learn a wind instrument, like clarinet, saxophone, or harmonica. The essential part of phrasing is breathing. When does a melodic line wrap up for a moment so the next one can begin? With a wind instrument, this becomes intuitive because you must pick your pauses to fit with the music or else, well, it sucks.
Musical ...
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yea, without reading the other answers i find that many many songs unintentionally change key depending on the part of the song, sticking with jack white, look at the song "old enough" by the raconteurs. the main part of the song is in G major, the chords being...
D | | |, C | G |
then in the second part of the song it uses an F chord instead of a D chord, ...
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To my ear, the notes sound like they've got a bit of sustain in them, so it might be simpler than you're making it out to be. No hammer-ons, pulloffs, or complicated sweep picking--just finger a concert Eb minor triad (in root inversion) high on the fretboard on the top three strings and do the rest of the work with your right hand.
From the recording you ...
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