If You Want My Love - Cheap Trick

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[angela21215]

when you say it goes from Emajor to Eminor isnt that considered a modulation?if not ,when is it considered modulation?

[privettricker]

@angela21215 I'm not musically trained, so I don't know the lingo. But the typical modulation in a pop/rock song would be like in The Who's version of Summertime Blues. It's in A all the way until after the guitar solo, and they modulate up to B for the last verse. Or like in Lennon's song Woman, where it's in D and then modulates up for the last verse and outro, or McCartney's Mull of Kintyre, which modulates up halfway through then returns back to the original key for the last verse.

[TheVasicist]

@angela21215 I think that's a trick the Beatles started. It's not a modulation, I think, although E major and E minor are technically in different keys (if you're thinking about diatonic chords, ie chords that come from the same scale). A good example of this is "If I Fell", where Lennon goes from G to G minor in the chorus. They do it in a ton of other songs too.

[privettricker]

@TheVasicist The Beatles may get credit for making that sort of chord sequence common in pop music, but they didn't invent it. If you listen to people like Cole Porter (of whom Paul was a big fan), you'll hear it all over the place.

[ottocarpenter]

At 1:12 I start to hear Beatles.

[privettricker]

@ottocarpenter I agree. There's a lot of McCartney feel to this song (and a bunch of other Cheap Trick songs).

[angela21215]

i love songs with descending bass lines.

[privettricker]

@notquiteclapton1 I aim to please.

[135aerosmithfan]

lol :) ted from how i met your mother

[stecklein7]

Grew up on Cheap Trick. Wrote documentaries about them as well. I had managed mega music stores in the past before my current profession. Music is and always will be one of my many passions. Thank you for sharing your talents. I am blown away discovering each and every style you chose to play.

[spacedoginnebraska]

@ 2:40...that pinky, dude.....how do you get your pinky finger to do all that work?



[TheSharkman2k]

Well done sir, subscribed!

[angela21215]

@privettricker thanks a lot man! im learning how to play songs by ear, and if someday you could do a lesson it'd be much appreciated.i know youve already done that with soul survivor but that is a song in open tuning.maybe a song with some moving bass lines and normal tuning.you could explain for instance not now but when you were in your early days of picking songs by ear, how did you go about finding the bass notes? by running a chromatic or diatonic scale until you find the note?