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« on: February 18, 2004, 08:09:25 AM »

I just listened to the amazing MP3 of The Godfather Theme that a member of this forum posted on the Yahoo Briefcase, and I wondered if this person (or any other!) knew the chords and the scales that were used in the song.

 beer Any help much appreciated!
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2004, 10:06:12 AM »

Here is mine:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/gnrtrials/godfather.zip

Scale D Pentatonic Minor

Chords:

Dm - Am - Dm - Gm - C - Dm - Bm - Dm

C - Dm - Gm - Dm


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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2004, 02:35:54 PM »

Thanks guys  beer

I'd figured most of it, I just needed the chords for backing and the scale for improv.

I'm gonna go learn that for a gig! The advantages of a keyboard player in a band are huge!  Grin

Thanks again  Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2004, 06:09:57 PM »

Isn't it the natural minor, rather than the pentatonic?
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2004, 08:59:23 AM »

I just listened to the amazing MP3 of The Godfather Theme that a member of this forum posted on the Yahoo Briefcase, and I wondered if this person (or any other!) knew the chords and the scales that were used in the song.

 beer Any help much appreciated!

Hey man, I think that was my Godfather theme you heard in the briefcase. Like has been said by others, I learned it by watching Slash play it on the Tokyo videos. The fast part in my rendition is pure improv however (pretty much where the actual theme gets lost in a flurry of notes), using a mixture of D natural minor, D harmonic minor, and the D blues/pentatonic scale.

The chords beind it are as follows:

Dm   Gm   Dm

Dm   Gm   C

C              Dm

C              F

Gm           A

And repeat.

Sorry about the confusing chord sequence shown above, I can't be arsed with tabs. I played the chords on my guitar using a clean sound with shitloads of reverb and delay, to give a bit more of a pretentious sound. The lead guitar is an Epiphone Les Paul using the rythym/neck pickup for the whole thing, with the tone set to about 5 or 6 I think.

Good Luck!  beer
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