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05-22-2010, 02:49 PM
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what famous songs are purely based on the major scale? am learning to transcribe music by ear and would like to stick to the major scale. so it will be really cool if you guys could help me make a list
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05-22-2010, 03:00 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | That shall make a very long list.
It's by far the most common scale. |
05-22-2010, 03:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | | please list a couple of them? basically i want to work out the melody
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05-22-2010, 03:21 PM
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05-23-2010, 12:09 AM
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The Flintstones
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
...that's two slows and one fast, ought to keep you busy for a while.
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05-23-2010, 12:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | | | Ruby Soho by Rancid is great for major scales (at least from what I remember)...
It starts off by just hitting every note in the descending G major, and when you hit the 1 (the low G; 3rd fret 'E'-string), you just switch to an ascending G major where you hit the 3rd and the 5th of the first four notes.
Tabbed:
G]----------------------|
D]5-4-2------------25-47|
A]------5-32-25-473--5--|
E]----------3--5--------|
Note: sorry if this is wrong/ illegible. I'm tired and I haven't listened to this song in a while...
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05-23-2010, 12:11 AM
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05-23-2010, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Yakob Ruby Soho by Rancid is great for major scales (at least from what I remember)...
It starts off by just hitting every note in the descending G major, and when you hit the 1 (the low G; 3rd fret 'E'-string), you just switch to an ascending G major where you hit the 3rd and the 5th of the first four notes.
. | no dont show me no tabs! i want to work it out all by myself 
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05-23-2010, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris K | this one has a hook in Bminor or something right? and the outro also sounds like a minor thing to me, the outro melody... G F# EDE
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05-23-2010, 02:07 AM
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Originally Posted by varunkapahi no dont show me no tabs! i want to work it out all by myself | The classic bassline to Stand by me- Ben E King |
05-23-2010, 02:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | Pretty much any classic rock and roll song: Rock Around The Clock, Johnny Be Goode, etc. Then you have things like Van's Bright Side Of The Road, James Taylor's How Sweet It Is (and many others), Bad Co's Can't Get Enough...........ooh the list is endless.
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05-23-2010, 02:53 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | But any songs with Dominant 7th chords, will introduce notes that are not in the major scale... 
So I'm sure that Rock and Roll songs have 7th chords - doesn't Rock Around the Clock have an E7 ....?
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05-23-2010, 05:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Metro NYC | | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, by Hank Williams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvW6_-TP5cs
There is a I7 going to the IV at one point, but IIRC the melody is pretty much straight major scale.
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05-23-2010, 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield But any songs with Dominant 7th chords, will introduce notes that are not in the major scale...
So I'm sure that Rock and Roll songs have 7th chords - doesn't Rock Around the Clock have an E7 ....? | If you're in A, all of the notes of the E7 chord are diatonic to the A major scale. |
05-23-2010, 05:26 AM
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05-23-2010, 06:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Deep East Texas Piney Woods | | Here is a list of 3 chord songs 99% of them will be major. http://www.piano-play-it.com/three-chord-songs.html
You will have to scroll down a page or two before you get to the list.
Hint. Playing by ear as taught by PianoMagic. Get the key - get the melody note to the first lyric word. What chord is used under the first word, the melody note will be one of the chord tones.
Lets say the song is in C the first chord is C and the first word is "How" say how and sound the C note, then the E note then the G note, I bet one of them will sound better than the others - that's your starting note.
Next word - same process...... After you get the first word it's a piece of cake after that. The other melody notes are just up scale or down scale -- douggah. If you have a keyboard it will be much easier on the keyboard than on your fretboard.
Have fun.
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05-23-2010, 06:32 AM
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Verses of "Crazy Train"
I Want You Back - J5
about a billion others!
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05-23-2010, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Commreman the Weight - the Band
Verses of "Crazy Train"
I Want You Back - J5
about a billion others! | Huge +1 on I Want You Back
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